Identity and Diversity

Gender and the Experience of Education
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-1-85359-247-8
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

This book brings together a collection of essays which reflect the changing currents in feminist theories and in gender studies. Increased interest in questions of identity has led to a re-appraisal of the dominant views within feminism and has also brought to the fore recent developments in the study of masculinities. The interventions of black feminists and other marginalized identities, as well as theoretical shifts produced by postmodernism, provide an opportunity to explore these changes and their implications for education. Drawing on different disciplines – sociology, education, women's studies, psychology and history – this volume addresses the issues from a range of perspectives – biographical, theoretical, and research-orientated. It brings in from the margins the voices of 'difference' within the English-speaking world and places them at the centre, thus making a bold and unique contribution to the study of gender. With its broad content, the book is also a valuable resource for work in the fields of women's studies, feminism, education and cultural studies; moreover, it responds to the growing interest in autobiography and life history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blair, Maud

Holland, Janet

Sheldon, Sue

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Sources

Introduction

PART 1: RETRIEVING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES: AUTO/BIOGRAPHY

1. bel hooks: Writing Autobiography

2. Carolyn Steedman: Death of a Good Woman

3. Fred Fever: Who Cares? Memories of a Childhood in Care

4. Uvanney Maylor: Identity, Migration and Education

5. Leslie Hills: The Senga Syndrome: Reflections on Twenty-one Years in Scottish Education

6. Mary Evans: Culture and Class

7. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku: He Whare Tangata; He Whare Kura? - What's Happening to Our Maori Girls?

8. Margaret Wetherell and Christine Griffin: Feminist Psychology and the Study of Men and Masculinity: Assumptions and Perspectives

PART 2: THEORIZING GENDER AND DIFFERENCE

9. Judy Lown: Feminist Perspectives

10. Jane Kenway: Feminist Theories of the State: To Be or Not To Be?

11. Jane Flax: Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory

12. Razir Aziz: Feminism and the Challenge of Racism: Deviance or Difference?

13. Jeff Hearn and David H.J Morgan: Contested Discourses on Men and Masculinities

14. Kobena Mercer and Isaac Julien: True Confessions: A Discourse on Images of Black Male Sexuality

15. Carol Gilligan: The Centrality of Relationship in Psychological Development: A Puzzle, Some Evidence, and a Theory

PART 3: MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES

16. Margaret Lloyd: Does She Boil Eggs? Towards a Feminist Model of Disability

17. Martha Vicinus: The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity

18. Mdirtin Mac an Ghaill: (In)Visibility: 'Race', Sexuality and Masculinity in the School Context

19. Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Sharpe and Rachel Thomson: Pleasure, Pressure and Power: Some Contradictions of Gendered Sexuality

20. Saeeda Khanum: Education and the Muslim Girl

Über Autor(innen)

Maud Blair is Lecturer in Education at The Open University. She is Chair of the Open University course ED356, 'Race', Education and Society, and is Co-chair with Janet Holland of the course E826, Gender Issues in Education: Equality and Difference. Janet Holland is Lecturer in Education at the Open University and Senior Research Lecturer at The Institute of Education, London University.