Feminist Critique of Education : Fifteen Years of Gender Development (Hardcover)

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 Reductionism or Post-Structuralist Relativism: Can We Move On?: An Evaluation of the Arguments in Relation to Feminist Educational Research  11. Beyond the Post-Structuralist Modern Impasse: The Woman Returner as ‘Exile’ and ‘Nomad’  Part 3: Education Policy and Management  12. Equal Opportunities: Rhetoric or Action  13. Voice, Harmony, and Fugue in Global Feminism  14. Making a Difference: Women in Management in Australian and Canadian Faculties of Education  15. Consumerism and Gender in an Era of School Choice: A Look at US Charter Schools  16. Death to Critique and Dissent?: The Policies and Practices of New Managerialism and of Evidence-Based Practice  Part 4: History  17. A Lost Dimension?: The Political Education of Women in the Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Britain  18. To ‘Blasise the Trail for Women to Follow Along’: Sex, Gender and the Politics of Education on the London School Board, 1870-1904  Part 5: Sexuality  19. Teachers and Issues of Sexual Orientation  20. Walking Through Walls: The Sexual Harassment of High School Girls  21. Boyz’ Own Stories: Masculinities and Sexualities in Schools (1)  Part 6: Ethnicity  22. Modern Traditions?: British Muslim Women and Academic Achievement  23. Theorising Inner-City Masculinities: Race, Class, Gender and Education  Part 7: Social Class  24. Shaun’s Story: Troubling Discourses of White Working-Class Masculinities  25. Uneasy Hybrids: Psychosocial Aspects of Becoming Educationally Successful for Working-Class Young Women