Postfeminist education?
girls and the sexual politics of schooling
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Author
Publication
2012 - Routledge, New York, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
47,500 words, Guess
Page Count
190 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780415557481
- ISBN-139780415557498
- ISBN-139780203106822
- ISBN-100415557488
- ISBN-100415557496
and 10 more
- ISBN-100203106822
- WikidataQ59586865', 'Q59586867
- Library of Congress Control Number2012004442
- OCLC Control Number802770923
- OCLC Control Number778636582
- OCLC Control Number436030369
- Better World Books9780415557481
- Better World Books9780415557498
- Better World Books9780203106822
- Open LibraryOL25223458M
Classifications
- DDC370/.82
- LCCLC197 .R56 2012
- LCCLC212.9
and 2 more
- LCCLC197 .R56 2013
- LCCLC197.R56 2012
Description
"This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone 'too far' with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new victims of gender transformations. The book is the first to outline and critique how educational discourses have directly fed into postfeminist anxieties, exploring three postfeminist panics over girls and girlhood that circulate widely in the international media and popular culture. First it explores how a masculinity crisis over failing boys in school has spawned a backlash discourse about overly successful girls; second it looks at how widespread anxieties over girls becoming excessively mean and/or violent have positioned female aggression as pathological; third it examines how incessant concerns over controlling risky female sexuality underpin recent sexualisation of girls moral panics. The book outlines how these postfeminist panics over girlhood have influenced educational policies and practices in areas such as academic achievement, anti-bullying strategies and sex-education curriculum, making visible the new postfeminist, sexual politics of schooling. Moving beyond media or policy critique, however, this book offers new theoretical and methodological tools for researching postfeminism, girlhood and education. It engages with current theoretical debates over possibilities for girls' agency and empowerment in postfeminist, neo-liberal contexts of sexual regulation. It also elaborates new psychosocial and feminist Deleuzian methodological approaches for mapping subjectivity, affectivity and social change"--
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Topics
Series Statement
- Foundations and futures of education
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