Feminist Critique of Education Fifteen Years of Gender Development [Hardcover]

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 and 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.

Part 1: Gender Identities  1. Pupils, Resistance and Gender Codes: A Study of Classroom Encounters  2. Girlies on the Warpath: Addressing Gender in Initial Teacher Education  3. Masculinity, Violence and Schooling: Challenging Poisonous Pedagogies  4. Feminism and Research into Masculinities and Schooling  5. Spice Girls, Nice Girls, Girlies and Tomboys: Gender Discourses, Girls Cultures and Femininities in the Primary Classroom  6. Reproducing Traditional Femininities?: The Social Relations of Special Educational Needs in a Girls Comprehensive School  7. Joining the Club?: Academia and Working-Class Femininities  Part 2: Theoretical Debate  8. Teaching Post-Structuralist Feminist Theory in Education: Student Resistance  9. The Subject of Post-Structuralism: A Reply to Alison Jones  10. Modernist Reductls½