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])
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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 ...
Black Men Teaching in Urban Schools: Reassessing Black Masculinity
1st Edition
By Edward Brockenbrough
July 31, 2020
This volume follows eleven Black male teachers from an urban, predominantly Black school district to reveal a complex set of identity politics and power dynamics that complicate these teachers’ relationships with students and fellow educators. It provides new and important insights into what it ...
Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education: Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through a Pleasure Lens
1st Edition
By Göran Gerdin
June 07, 2019
Using visual ethnography, this book explores the many forms of pleasures that boys derive in and through the spaces and their bodies in physical education. Employing the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Gerdin examines how pleasure is connected to identity, schooling, and power relations...
Feminist Pedagogy, Practice, and Activism: Improving Lives for Girls and Women
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Martin, Ashley E. Nickels, Martina Sharp-Grier
June 07, 2019
Feminist programming, no matter the venue, provides opportunities for young girls and women, as well as men, to acquire leadership skills and the confidence to create sustainable social change. Offering a wide-ranging overview of different types of feminist engagement, the chapters in this volume ...
Schooling Sexual Cultures: Visual Research in Sexuality Education
1st Edition
By Louisa Allen
June 07, 2019
Moving beyond the traditional focus on curriculum and pedagogy, this volume explores hidden dimensions of sexuality education in schools and how sexual meanings are produced. Challenging the standard understandings of sexuality education, Allen discusses how students’ knowledge of sexualities is ...
LGBT-Q Teachers, Civil Partnership and Same-Sex Marriage: The Ambivalences of Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Aoife Neary
June 04, 2019
The introduction of legislative structures for same-sex relationships provides a new lens for grappling with the politics of sexuality in schools and society. The emergence of civil partnership and same-sex marriage in Ireland brings to the fore international debates around public intimacy, ...
Masculinity and Aspiration in an Era of Neoliberal Education: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Garth Stahl, Joseph Nelson, Derron Wallace
June 04, 2019
This collection investigates the ways in which boys and young men negotiate neoliberal discourse surrounding aspiration and how neoliberalism shapes their identities. Expanding the field of masculinity studies in education, the contributors offer international comparisons of different subgroups of ...