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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


Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race

Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race

1st Edition

Edited By Tamara Shefer, Jeff Hearn, Kopano Ratele, Floretta Boonzaier
August 14, 2020

Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race offers critical perspectives on contemporary research and practice directed at young people across the global north and south. Drawing upon pedagogical, programmatic, ...

Black Men Teaching in Urban Schools Reassessing Black Masculinity

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 ...

LGBTQI Parented Families and Schools Visibility, Representation, and Pride

LGBTQI Parented Families and Schools: Visibility, Representation, and Pride

1st Edition

By Anna Carlile, Carrie Paechter
June 30, 2020

Exploring the experiences of LGBTQI+ parents and their children and their relationship with schools, this book illuminates how these families work with schools, and how schools do, or do not, support children of LGBTQI parents. Based on empirical research and making space for the voices of both ...

Learning to Live in Boys’ Schools Art-led Understandings of Masculinities

Learning to Live in Boys’ Schools: Art-led Understandings of Masculinities

1st Edition

By Donal O'Donoghue
June 30, 2020

This book is about boys’ experiences of being educated in independent single-sex schools in Canada. These experiences, which are oftentimes attributed to particular places and moments at school, reveal ways in which school places are both "companionable" and "influential" in how boys become ...

Starting with Gender in International Higher Education Research Conceptual Debates and Methodological Considerations

Starting with Gender in International Higher Education Research: Conceptual Debates and Methodological Considerations

1st Edition

Edited By Emily Henderson, Z Nicolazzo
June 30, 2020

Bridging a gap between higher education research and women’s and gender studies, this volume explores the conceptual underpinnings and methodological implications involved in researching different concepts commonly associated with gender, including queer, trans*, women, men, feminisms, ...

Boys, Masculinities and Reading Gender Identity and Literacy as Social Practice

Boys, Masculinities and Reading: Gender Identity and Literacy as Social Practice

1st Edition

By Laura Scholes
December 10, 2019

Boys, Masculinities and Reading explores elementary students’ interpretations of their experiences of reading and the contextual influences that impact those experiences. While research continues to highlight the apparent systematic underperformance of boys in comparison to girls on national and ...

Queering Families, Schooling Publics Keywords

Queering Families, Schooling Publics: Keywords

1st Edition

By Anne Harris, Stacy Holman Jones, Sandra Faulkner, Eloise Brook
December 10, 2019

At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and sexualities education, there is surprisingly little writing on what it means to queer notions of family and kinship networks in global context. Building...

Supporting and Educating Young Muslim Women Stories from Australia and the UK

Supporting and Educating Young Muslim Women: Stories from Australia and the UK

1st Edition

By Amanda Keddie
December 10, 2019

This book draws on the stories of female educators and young Muslim women to explore issues of identity, justice and education. Situated against a backdrop of unprecedented Islamophobia and new articulations of ‘White-lash’, this book draws on case study research conducted over a ten-year period ...

Young Bisexual Women's Experiences in Secondary Schools

Young Bisexual Women's Experiences in Secondary Schools

1st Edition

By Mary-Anne McAllum
December 10, 2019

Emerging from a case study in secondary schools, this book explores young bisexual women’s notions of bisexuality through their own sense of self-identification and how they express their personal beliefs. McAllum sheds light on the presence and practices of "bisexual misrecognition" and "...

Hidden Sexualities of South African Teachers Black Male Educators and Same-sex Desire

Hidden Sexualities of South African Teachers: Black Male Educators and Same-sex Desire

1st Edition

By Thabo Msibi
September 05, 2019

South Africa remains a global leader in the legislative protection of individuals who engage in same-sex relations, and is the only country in Africa where the rights of these individuals are explicitly recognized and protected by the constitution. Yet South Africa’s identities are still contested ...

Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through a Pleasure Lens

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

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 ...

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