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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 Murray ([email protected])

41 Series Titles


Facilitating LGBTQIA+ Allyship through Multimodal Writing in the Elementary Classroom Preparing Teachers to Challenge Heteronormativity

Facilitating LGBTQIA+ Allyship through Multimodal Writing in the Elementary Classroom: Preparing Teachers to Challenge Heteronormativity

1st Edition

By Judith M. Dunkerly, Julia Poplin, Valerie Sledd Taylor
September 25, 2023

This book reports findings of a qualitative study intended to disrupt notions of heteronormativity amongst preservice elementary teachers by engaging them in multimodal writing and text production around issues facing LGBTQIA+ youth. Against the backdrop of increasing anti-transgender sentiment in...

Affect and the Making of the Schoolgirl A New Materialist Perspective on Gender Inequity in Schools

Affect and the Making of the Schoolgirl: A New Materialist Perspective on Gender Inequity in Schools

1st Edition

By Melissa Wolfe
May 31, 2023

By exploring the material-discursive production of gender norms in Australian secondary schools, this book offers a novel feminist posthuman new materialist perspective on how schoolgirls are pre-determined within educational space and place. The text ultimately illustrates how gender and race ...

Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation Student and Teacher Experiences in Schools

Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation: Student and Teacher Experiences in Schools

1st Edition

By Tania Ferfolja, Jacqueline Ullman
April 29, 2022

Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation provides an outstanding and insightful critique of the ways that contemporary education is impacted by a range of political, social and cultural influences that inform the approaches that schools take in relation to gender and sexuality ...

The Experiences of Queer Students of Color at Historically White Institutions Navigating Intersectional Identities on Campus

The Experiences of Queer Students of Color at Historically White Institutions: Navigating Intersectional Identities on Campus

1st Edition

By Antonio Duran
April 29, 2022

This significant text employs an intersectional analysis and considers the role of queer frameworks to understand the experiences of Queer People of Color at historically white institutions of higher education in the U.S. By presenting data from student interviews and reflection journals, ...

Young British African and Caribbean Men Achieving Educational Success Disrupting Deficit Discourses about Black Male Achievement

Young British African and Caribbean Men Achieving Educational Success: Disrupting Deficit Discourses about Black Male Achievement

1st Edition

By Cecile Wright, Uvanney Maylor, Thomas Pickup
April 29, 2022

In contrast to research that focuses on the underperformance of young Black males in the British education system, the dominant notion of this volume is educational success. By aiming to understand how young, Black—notably African and Caribbean—male education plays out in different educational ...

Girls, Single-Sex Schools, and Postfeminist Fantasies

Girls, Single-Sex Schools, and Postfeminist Fantasies

1st Edition

By Stephanie McCall
December 13, 2021

Bringing together feminist theory, girlhood studies, and curriculum theory, this book contributes an in-depth critical analysis of curriculum in single-gender schooling for girls in postfeminist landscapes of "unlimited choices" and resurgences of proper girlhood. The arguments challenge the ...

Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools Educational Equity and Gender

Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools: Educational Equity and Gender

1st Edition

By Susan McCullough
December 13, 2021

Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight into the experiences of young Latina women and their teachers in a North American middle school. Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools details how students navigate questions of ...

Queer, Trans, and Intersectional Theory in Educational Practice Student, Teacher, and Community Experiences

Queer, Trans, and Intersectional Theory in Educational Practice: Student, Teacher, and Community Experiences

1st Edition

Edited By Cris Mayo, Mollie V. Blackburn
December 13, 2021

Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for keeping race, ethnicity, class, language, and other diversities at the core of pedagogical strategies and theories that address queer, trans, gender nonbinary and related issues.Queer ...

Lad Culture in Higher Education Sexism, Sexual Harassment and Violence

Lad Culture in Higher Education: Sexism, Sexual Harassment and Violence

1st Edition

By Carolyn Jackson, Vanita Sundaram
November 01, 2021

Responding to increasing concerns about the harmful effects of so-called ‘lad culture’ in British universities, and related ‘bro’ and ‘frat’ cultures in US colleges, this book is the first to explore and analyse the perspectives of university staff on these cultures, which students suggest foster ...

Gender, Definitional Politics and 'Live' Knowledge Production Contesting Concepts at Conferences

Gender, Definitional Politics and 'Live' Knowledge Production: Contesting Concepts at Conferences

1st Edition

By Emily F. Henderson
March 31, 2021

Waking up to the reactivity of concepts, to their myriad possibilities for signification, to the range and strength of affective responses they provoke, can happen at any time, in any place. Conceptual contestations shake up the comfortably consolidated foundations of sociological knowledge ...

Gender and Care with Young Children A Feminist Material Approach to Early Childhood Education

Gender and Care with Young Children: A Feminist Material Approach to Early Childhood Education

1st Edition

By B. Denise Hodgins
December 18, 2020

This book is an exploration of how children, educators, and things become implicated in gendered caring practices. Drawing on a collaborative research study with early childhood educators and young children, the author examines what an engagement with human-and non-human relationality does to ...

Women, Islam and Education in Iran

Women, Islam and Education in Iran

1st Edition

Edited By Goli M. Rezai-Rashti, Golnar Mehran, Shirin Abdmolaei
September 30, 2020

Drawing on the complexities and nuances in women’s education in relation to the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, this edited collection examines implications of religious-based policies on gender relations as well as the unanticipated outcomes of increasing participation of women in ...

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