A feminist critique of education
Subtitle: 15 years of gender development
By: [edited by] Christine Skelton & Becky Francis.
Contributors: Skelton, Christine.; Francis, Becky.
Series: Education heritage series
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer; Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Feminism and education; Gender identity in education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Christine Skelton and Becky Francis; title: Pupils, resistance, and gender codes : a study of classroom encounters / Sheila Riddell; title: "Girlies on the warpath" : addressing gender in initial teacher education / Amanda J. Coffey and Sandra Acker; title: Masculinity, violence, and schooling : challenging "poisonous pedagogies" / Jane Kenway and Lindsay Fitzclarence; title: "Spice girls," "nice girls," "girlies," and "tomboys" : gender discourses, girls' cultures, and femininities in the primary classroom / Diane Reay; title: Reproducing traditional femininities? : the social relations of "special educational needs" in a girls' comprehensive school / Shereen Benjamin; title: Teaching post-structuralist feminist theory in education : student resistances / Alison Jones; title: The subject of post-structuralism : a reply to Alison Jones / Bronwyn Davies; title: Equal opportunities : rhetoric or action / Sue Lees and Maria Scott; title: Voice, harmony, and fugue in global feminism / Nelly P. Stromquist; title: Making a difference : women in management in Australian and Canadian faculties of education / Johanna Wyn, Sandra Acker, and Elisabeth Richards; title: Consumerism and gender in an era of school choice : a look at US charter schools / Amy Stambach; title: Death to critique and dissent? : the policies and practices of new managerialism and of "evidence-based practice" / Bronwyn Davies; title: Viewpoint : a lost dimension? : the political education of women in the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain / June Purvis; title: To "blaise the trail for women to follow along" : sex, gender, and the politics of education on the London School Board, 1870-1904 / Jane Martin; title: Teachers and issues of sexual orientation / Gillian Squirrell; title: Walking through walls : the sexual harassment of high school girls / June Larkin; title: Boyz' own stories : masculinities and sexualities in schools / Debbie Epstein; title: Modern traditions? : British Muslim women and academic achievement / Fauzia Ahmad; title: Theorising inner-city masculinities : "race," class, gender, and education / Louise Archer and Hiromi Yamashita; title: Shaun's story : troubling discourses of white working-class masculinities / Diane Reay; title: Uneasy hybrids : psychosocial aspects of becoming educationally successful for working-class young women / Helen Lucey, June Melody, and Valerie Walkerdine.