The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender & Education

by Arnot; Madeleine

• ISBN13: 9780415345767
• ISBN10: 0415345766
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-08-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This unique reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in gender and education today. Focusing on enduring trends, it is lively and informative, providing broad coverage of the issues and including crucial topics.With an emphasis on new work that deals with issues relevant to the real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the most respected authors in the field today. Madeleine Arnot, highly regarded for her work in this area, also includes a specially written introduction which provides a much-needed context to the role of gender in the current educational climate.Students of education with an interest in gender issues will find this an important route map to further reading and understanding.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
1 (Re)contextualising gender studies in education: schooling in late modernity	1	(14)
MADELEINE ARNOT AND MAIRTIN MAC AN GHAILL
Gender in late modernity	2	(3)
Feminisation of schooling and the 'crisis of masculinity'	5	(1)
The (re)masculinisation of schooling and girls' education	6	(2)
Gender theory in education	8	(7)
PART 1 Gender and educational theory	15	(44)
2 Gender theory and research in education: modernist traditions and emerging contemporary themes	17	(16)
JO-ANNE DILLABOUGH
Introduction	17	(1)
The development of gender in education as a field of study	17	(2)
Gender, educational structures and social reproduction	19	(1)
Transformations of gender theory and educational research	20	(1)
Emerging themes/theoretical orientations in gender and education	21	(7)
Conclusion	28	(5)
3 Troubling boys and disturbing discourses on masculinity and schooling: a feminist exploration of current debates and interventions concerning boys in school	33	(16)
LYNN RAPHAEL REED
Introduction	33	(1)
Composing the subject: orchestrating the crisis	34	(8)
A feminist's perspective on masculinities and schooling	42	(7)
4 Education and gender identity: seeking frameworks of understanding	49	(12)
CHRIS HAYWOOD AND MAIRTIN MAC AN GHAILL
Materialist and deconstructionist identity epistemologies	50	(1)
Materialist accounts of identity: politics, structure and agency	50	(3)
Deconstructionist accounts of identity formation: multiplicity, inversion and binaries	53	(3)
Conclusion	56	(3)
PART 2 Difference and power	59	(56)
5 Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory	61	(11)
JUDITH BUTLER
Sex/gender: feminist and phenomenological views	62	(3)
Binary genders and the heterosexual contract	65	(4)
Feminist theory: beyond an expressive model of gender	69	(3)
6 Identity, abjection and otherness: creating the self, creating difference	72	(19)
BRONWYN DAVIES
Border-work and abjection: constituting the other	73	(3)
An analytic framework for researching transgressive practice	76	(7)
The tickle in the brain: bringing the analytic framework to bear on practice	83	(5)
Notes for an enabling pedagogy	88	(3)
7 Masculine domination: permanence and change	91	(10)
PIERRE BOURDIEU
The historical labour of dehistoricization	91	(2)
The factors of change	93	(3)
The economy of symbolic goods and reproduction strategies	96	(2)
The strength of the structure	98	(3)
8 The big picture: masculinities in recent world history	101	(16)
R.W. CONNELL
Studying 'Masculinity'	101	(4)
Masculinities in history	105	(3)
Contemporary politics	108	(7)
PART 3 Identity work	115	(46)
9 'Spice girls', 'nice girls', 'girlies', and 'tomboys': gender discourses, girls' cultures and femininities in the primary classroom	117	(14)
DIANE REAY
Introduction	117	(1)
The research study	117	(1)
Gender discourses	118	(1)
Masculinities in the classroom: setting the context	119	(2)
Sugar and spice and all things nice?	121	(4)
'It's better being a boy' – the tomboys	125	(2)
Conclusion	127	(4)
10 'Lads and laughter': humour and the production of heterosexual hierarchies	131	(16)
MARY JANE KEHILY AND ANOOP NAYAK
Introduction	131	(1)
Methodology	132	(1)
Regimes of humour: masculinities, game-play and insults	132	(6)
Retelling ourselves – mythic events and heterosexual identities	138	(4)
Humour and sex/gender hierarchies	142	(2)
Conclusion: the last laugh?	144	(3)
11 Gender-blind racism in the experience of schooling and identity formation	147	(16)
CECILE WRIGHT, DEBBIE WEEKES AND ALEX MCGLAUGHLIN
The study	148	(1)
Gendering 'race'	149	(2)
Racializing school exclusions	151	(2)
Differential experiences	153	(2)
Power and powerlessness	155	(2)
Conclusion	157	(4)
PART 4 Knowledge and pedagogy	161	(60)
12 Boys don't write romance: the construction of knowledge and social gender identities in English classrooms	163	(17)
GABRIELLE IVINSON AND PATRICIA MURPHY
Social and political context of the study	163	(1)
The study	163	(1)
Understanding learning and settings	163	(1)
The social world of gender	164	(1)
Research stance	165	(1)
Method and design	165	(2)
Analysing learning	167	(1)
Interpersonal plane of analysis	167	(4)
Summary remarks	171	(1)
Personal plane of analysis	172	(5)
Concluding remarks	177	(3)
13 Beyond the birds and the bees: constituting a discourse of erotics in sexuality education	180	(14)
LOUISA ALLEN
Introduction	180	(2)
'The birds and the bees': de-eroticized sex education	182	(1)
Benefits of including a discourse of erotics in sexuality education	183	(2)
First steps: building a discourse of erotics around young people	185	(5)
Closing thoughts	190	(4)
14 Power, bodies and identity: how different forms of physical education construct varying masculinities and femininities in secondary schools	194	(12)
CARRIE PAECHTER
Performing gender in secondary school PE	195	(2)
Franks' typology of bodily usage	197	(2)
Bodily use, PE, sports and fitness practices	199	(4)
Conclusion	203	(3)
15 Masculinity, violence and schooling: challenging 'poisonous pedagogies'	206	(17)
JANE KEN WAY AND LINDSAY FITZCLARENCE
Introduction	206	(1)
Violence and masculinity, marginality, sexuality, intimacy and age	206	(6)
Schooling the violent imagination'	212	(9)
PART 5 Reflexivity and risk	221	(62)
16 Working out intimacy: young people and friendship in an age of reflexivity	223	(15)
JULIE MCLEOD
Affect, relationships and the self	224	(3)
Changing patterns of gender difference	227	(2)
Connection and autonomy	229	(1)
Rearticulating masculinity through relationship narratives	230	(4)
Concluding comments	234	(4)
17 Uneasy hybrids: psychosocial aspects of becoming educationally successful for working-class young women	238	(14)
HELEN LUCEY, JUNE MELODY AND VALERIE WALKERDINE
Hybridity	239	(1)
Project 4:21 transitions to womanhood	240	(1)
Into the family	241	(1)
Nicky	241	(3)
Holly	244	(2)
Belonging and escape	246	(2)
Going it alone	248	(1)
Conclusion	249	(3)
18 Nomadic subjects: young black women in Britain	252	(16)
MARIA TAMBOUKOU AND STEPHEN BALL
Introduction	252	(1)
Of nomadic thinking, or to think is to experiment	253	(3)
Locating entrapment	256	(4)
Escape attempts: the becoming thought of the young women	260	(2)
Moving off, becoming a nomad	262	(6)
19 Citizenship and the self-made girl	268	(15)
ANITA HARRIS
Social rights and the self-made girl	269	(4)
Ambassadress for the nation	273	(4)
Consumer citizens	277	(2)
Conclusion	279	(4)
Index	283