Feminist Critique of Education: Fifteen Years of Gender Development

by Skelton; Christine

• ISBN13: 9780415363914
• ISBN10: 0415363918
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years. It includes over thirty-five seminal articles from the journal Gender & Education, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe.Compiled by the current editors of the journal to show the development of the field, the book is divided into six sections:* Gender Identities* Theory and Method* Policy and Management* Sexuality* Ethnicity* Social Class.The specially written introduction by the editors contextualises the selection and introduces students to the main issues and current thinking in the field. Available in one easy-to-access place, this authoritative reference book provides a collection of articles that have lead the field. It should find a place in every library and on every departmental bookshelf.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(8)
CHRISTINE SKELTON AND BECKY FRANCIS
PART I Gender identities	9	(76)
1 Pupils, resistance and gender codes: a study of classroom encounters	11	(14)
SHEILA RIDDELL
2 'Girlies on the warpath': addressing gender in initial teacher education	25	(13)
AMANDA J. COFFEY AND SANDRA ACKER
3 Masculinity, violence and schooling: challenging 'poisonous pedagogies'	38	(17)
JANE KENWAY AND LINDSAY FITZCLARENCE
4 'Spice girls', 'nice girls', 'girlies' and 'tomboys': gender discourses, girls' cultures and femininities in the primary classroom	55	(15)
DIANE REAY
5 Reproducing traditional femininities? The social relations of 'special educational needs' in a girls' comprehensive school	70	(17)
SHEREEN BENJAMIN
PART II Theoretical debate	85	(26)
6 Teaching post-structuralist feminist theory in education: student resistances	87	(9)
ALISON JONES
7 The subject of post-structuralism: a reply to Alison Jones	96	(17)
BRONWYN DAVIES
PART III Education policy and management	111	(76)
8 Equal opportunities: rhetoric or action	113	(11)
SUE LEES AND MARIA SCOTT
9 Voice, harmony and fugue in global feminism	124	(16)
NELLY P. STROMQUIST
10 Making a difference: women in management in Australian and Canadian faculties of education	140	(14)
JOHANNA WYN, SANDRA ACKER AND ELISABETH RICHARDS
11 Consumerism and gender in an era of school choice: a look at US Charter Schools	154	(18)
AMY STAMBACH
12 Death to critique and dissent? The policies and practices of new managerialism and of 'evidence-based practice'	172	(15)
BRONWYN DAVIES
PART IV History	187	(30)
13 Viewpoint: a lost dimension? The political education of women in the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain	189	(9)
JUNE PURVIS
14 To 'blaise the trail for women to follow along': sex, gender and the politics of education on the London School Board, 1870-1904	198	(19)
JANE MARTIN
PART V Sexuality	217	(50)
15 Teachers and issues of sexual orientation	219	(17)
GILLIAN SQUIRRELL
16 Walking through walls: the sexual harassment of high school girls	236	(19)
JUNE LARKIN
17 Boyz' own stories: masculinities and sexualities in schools	255	(12)
DEBBIE EPSTEIN
PART VI Ethnicity	267	(38)
18 Modern traditions? British Muslim women and academic achievement	269	(17)
FAUZIA AHMAD
19 Theorising inner-city masculinities: 'race', class, gender and education	286	(19)
LOUISE ARCHER AND HIROMI YAMASHITA
PART VII Social class	305
20 Shaun's story: troubling discourses of white working-class masculinities	307	(15)
DIANE REAY
21 Uneasy hybrids: psychosocial aspects of becoming educationally successful for working-class young women	322
HELEN LUCEY, JUNE MELODY AND VALERIE WALKERDINE