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All About the Girl
This groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning to "grrl" power. Featuring provocative essays from leaders in the field like Michelle Fine, Angela McRobbie, Valerie Walkerdine, Nancy Lesko, Niobe Way and Deborah Tolman, this work brings to life the ever-changing identities of today's young women. The contributors cover all aspects of girlhood from around the world and strike upon such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity. This is new scholarship at its best.
Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging
Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of desire, and ways of belonging and relating to others in specific contexts and moments in time. Opening with a substantial introduction by one of the editors, this collection of thirteen essays is organised into three parts, each section making important contributions to contemporary debates regarding the sexual politics of citizenship, marriage, friendship, pornography, intimacies, eroticism and desire. As such, the essays introduce fresh perspectives for thinking about how individuals construct s...
Becoming Feminist
This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism. Centred on the themes of generations, hope, emotions and belonging, each chapter attends to the specific and particular practices of 'becoming feminist' via a series of accessible case studies. Adopting a theoretical and methodological focus on narrative and memory, this original and absorbing work analyses the various and complex ways in which feminism and its histories are received and processed by some feminist women today. Its focus on the specificity of experience disrupts overarching narratives of feminism and its histories, whilst acknowledging that such narratives are often used to sustain, defend and maintain a secure feminist identity. In doing so, it develops a growing body of work concerned with the relationships women forge to feminism’s pasts, presents and futures, with a distinct focus on the stories feminist women tell about their lives. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, psychosocial studies, gender studies, women's studies and cultural studies.
Hegemony and Heteronormativity
This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It explores the specific insights offered by these categories and the ways in which they augment the analysis of power and domination from a queer perspective, whilst also examining the possibilities for political analysis and strategy-building provided by theories of hegemony and heteronormativity. Moreover, in addressing these issues the book strives to rethink the understanding of the term "queer", so as to avoid narrowing queer politics to a critique of normative heterosexuality and the rigid gender binary. By looking at the interplay between hegemony and heteronormativity, this ground-breaking volume presents new possibilities of reconceptualizing 'the political' from a queer perspective. Investigating the effects of queer politics not only on subjectivities and intimate personal relations, but also on institutions, socio-cultural processes and global politics, this book will be of interest to those working in the fields of critical theory, gender and sexuality, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist political theory.
Language, Gender and Sexual Identity
This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it presents a critical, deconstructionist perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view. On the one hand, the book provides an outline of Queer approaches to issues of language, gender and sexual identity that is of interest to students and scholars new to the field. On the other hand, the empirical analyses of language data represent material that also appeals to experts in the field. The book deals with repercussions of the discursive materialisation of heteronormativity and gender ...
Appearances Matter
The visual turn recovers new pasts. With education as its theme, this book seeks to present a body of reflections that questions a certain historicism and renovates historiographical debate about how to conceptualize and use images and artifacts in educational history, in the process presenting new themes and methods for researchers. Images are interrogated as part of regimes of the visible, of a history of visual technologies and visual practices. Considering the socio-material quality of the image, the analysis moves away from the use of images as mere illustrations of written arguments, and takes seriously the question of the life and death of artifacts – that is, their particular historicity. Questioning the visual and material evidence in this way means considering how, when, and in which régime of the visible it has come to be considered as a source, and what this means for the questions contemporary researchers might ask.
Die Bedeutung körperlicher Devianz im Schulsport. Möglichkeiten und Hindernisse zwischen Theorie und Praxis
Im Sportunterricht steht der menschliche Körper im Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit. Innerhalb unserer Gesellschaft und somit auch im Bereich institutioneller Bildungseinrichtungen muss der menschliche Körper einer Vielzahl von Anforderungen gerecht werden. Von der motorischen Funktionsfähigkeit bis hin zu sozial konstruierten Normativitätsvorstellungen steht der menschliche Körper in einem permanenten Spannungsverhältnis zwischen sozialen Anforderungen und seiner Materialitätsbasis. Aufgrund phänotypischer Andersartigkeit, körperlicher Beeinträchtigung sowie abweichender Sexualität und Geschlechtlichkeit entstehen allzu schnell Formen sozialer Diffamierung und Isolation, die sich als schmerzhafte Erfahrungen in den Lebensläufen der betroffenen Individuen bemerkbar machen. Es sind jedoch gerade die Unterschiede, die unseren Erfahrungsschatz bereichern können. Diversität als Chance!
Mediensozialisationstheorien
Die Autoren des Sammelbandes unternehmen den Versuch, das Potenzial vorhandener soziologischer Medien- und Sozialisationstheorien zu verknüpfen und im Kontext gegenwärtiger Medienentwicklungen für einen modernen Ansatz einer Mediensozialisationstheorie zu nutzen. Vorgestellt und diskutiert werden Ideen, neue Theoriemodelle und Untersuchungen.
Gute Ganztagsschulen entwickeln
Wenn Kinder und Jugendliche regelmäßig an guten Ganztagsangeboten teilnehmen, erzielen sie bessere Lernerfolge - das belegt die Forschung. Doch wie entwickelt sich der Ausbau der Ganztagsschulen? Welche Erfahrungen sammeln Eltern, Lehrkräfte und Schulleiter? Wo kommt ganztägiges Lernen derzeit noch an seine Grenzen? Was benötigen Ganztagsschulen in Deutschland, um ihr Potenzial für gutes Lernen entfalten zu können, und woran lässt sich Qualität im Ganztag festmachen? Der Band "Gute Ganztagsschulen entwickeln" beantwortet diese Fragen anhand aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und liefert aussagekräftiges Zahlenmaterial. Kurze Porträts ausgesuchter Schulen illustrieren Entwicklungspfade und Meilensteine hin zur guten Ganztagsschule.
Evaluation, Wissen und Nichtwissen
In den europäischen Schulsystemen spielt Evaluation eine zunehmend große Rolle: Im Rahmen neu eingeführter Schulinspektionen, regelmäßiger Schülerleistungstests und schulischer Abschlussprüfungen werden Evaluationen für und in allen Schulen durchgeführt. Solche evaluationsbasierte Steuerungsmaßnahmen implizieren die Annahme, zu einem 'mehr' an Wissen gelangen und damit Bildungssysteme insgesamt besser steuern zu können. Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen der Frage nach, welche Formen des Wissens mit Evaluationen transportiert werden, welche Akteure auf welchen Ebenen im Bildungswesen welches Wissen benötigen und letztlich, wie Wissen eine bestehende Handlungspraxis bestärkt oder aber eine neue konstituieren kann.
