Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
About the Book Series
Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education showcases scholarly work over a wide range of educational topics, contexts and locations within gender and sexuality in education. The series welcomes theoretically informed scholarship including critical, feminist, queer, trans, postcolonial, and intersectional perspectives, and encourages creative and innovative methodological approaches. Proposals dealing with critical policy analysis, as it relates to gender and sexuality studies in education, are also invited. The series is committed to publishing scholarly monographs, both sole and co-authored, and edited collections.
Please send inquiries and proposals to: Wayne Martino ([email protected]), EJ Renold ([email protected]) and Kirsty Hardwick ([email protected])
Becoming in Global Trans Studies: Critical Approaches to Educational Theory, Methodology, Ethics, and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Pin-Ru Su, Ting-Yen Ho, Shanshan Zhang, Z Nicolazzo
October 14, 2025
This ground-breaking book explores the increased visibility of trans people in various academic fields of study including education. It asks who this visibility benefits, and how. With much of the trans studies literature in education yet to seriously consider trans as a global phenomenon, or ...
Towards a Queer and Trans Ethic of Care in Education: Beyond the Limitations of White, Cisheteropatriarchal, Colonial Care
1st Edition
By Bishop Owis
August 29, 2025
Synthesizing conversations from across gender and sexuality education, race and settler-colonialism studies, and care work literature, Towards a Queer and Trans Ethic of Care in Education explores how queer and trans teachers of colour understand and practice care. Woven between narratives and ...
Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender: Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care
1st Edition
Edited
By David Brody, Yuwei Xu, Kari Emilsen, Laetitia Coles
August 29, 2025
This book draws on ethnographic studies in nine countries across six continents to examine young children’s perspectives on their male and female teachers. Contributors from China, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Israel, Turkey, Norway, the UK, and the USA present case studies based on early ...
Constellating Emotional Dialogues in Secondary Education: Autoethnographic Insights into Queerness, Race, and Compassion
1st Edition
By Emily Wilkinson
July 17, 2025
This innovative, autoethnographic study examines 12 stories of “wobble” moments—looking at “wobble” as an emotional experience—to illuminate new perspectives on LGBTQIA+ identity, school violence, racism, mental illness in students and teachers, and the emotional costs of empathy. Utilizing the ...
Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Deevia Bhana, Yuwei Xu, Vina Adriany
May 05, 2025
This volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South, including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam. In this book, the contributors explore how gender, culture, religion, masculinity, sport, and conservative ...
Rethinking School Spaces for Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender Diverse Youth: Trans-ing the School Washroom
1st Edition
By Jennifer Ingrey
November 29, 2024
Positing the washroom as an onto-epistemological site which exemplifies the way in which school spaces govern how gender is experienced, normalized, and understood by youth, this text illustrates how current school policies and practices around bathrooms fail to dismantle cisnormativity and ...
Transnational Filipina/o/x Youth, Intersectional Identities, and School-Community Partnerships: The Gendered Vulnerabilities of Migration in Canada
1st Edition
By Jessica Ticar
November 05, 2024
This book provides an in-depth examination of how Filipina mothers, serving as migrant caregivers, and their children navigate the experiences of family separation and reunification through Canada’s Live-in/Caregiver Program (L/CP). It analyses how Filipina/o/x youth understand their political ...
All About Black Girl Love in Education: bell hooks and Pedagogies of Love
1st Edition
Edited
By Autumn A. Griffin, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
October 18, 2024
Drawing from bell hooks' 1999 book All About Love, this volume builds on theories of love as they relate to Black Girlhood in education, shedding light on educational practices rooted in love and exploring strategies for centering Black girls and love in Grades K-12. Bringing together voices of ...
Advancing Sexual Consent and Agential Practices in Higher Education: Toward a New Community of Practice
1st Edition
By Jason A. Laker, Erica M. Boas
June 03, 2024
This book provides an in-depth exploration of sexual consent communication and negotiation practices among students and efforts to prevent and respond to sexual coercion and violence within the context of North American higher education institutions. Delving into the complexities of communication ...
Understanding Whole-School Approaches to LGBTQ+ Inclusion: Theory to Inform Policy and Practice in Schools and Universities
1st Edition
By Jonathan Glazzard, Samuel Stones
June 03, 2024
The book provides a comprehensive theoretical exploration of LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools drawing on critical insights from across the disciplines of sociology, psychology, history, and queer theory to present a robust theoretical foundation for school-wide approaches to LGBTQ+ inclusion. Examining ...
Queer Activism in South African Education: Disrupting Cis(hetero)normativity in Schools
1st Edition
By Dennis A. Francis
May 27, 2024
Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educational practices, discourses and structures normalize cisheteronormativity, along with how these are resisted within schools and through contemporary ...
LGBTQI+ Allies in Education, Advocacy, Activism, and Participatory Collaborative Research
1st Edition
By Wendy M. Cumming-Potvin
January 29, 2024
This topical book explores the ally perspective in advocating for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer and Inter-sex (LGBTQI+) human rights across American, Canadian, and Australian educational contexts. This book aims to clarify the terms and dynamics of mobilizing heterosexual and ...