Postfeminist education? : girls and the sexual politics of schooling /
"This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone 'too far' with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new vict...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013
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| Series: | Foundations and futures of education.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : postfeminism, education and girls
- 2. Successful girls? : exploring educational media and policy "scapes" and the postfeminist panic over feminine "success"
- 3. Mean or violent girls? : exploring the postfeminist panic over feminine aggression
- 4. Sexy girls? : the middle class postfeminist panic over girls' "sexualisation" and the protectionist discourses of sex education
- 5. Rethinking debates on girls' agency : critiquing postfeminist discourses of "choice"
- 6. Towards a new discursive, psychosocial and affective theoretical-methodological approach
- 7. Sexual regulation and embodied resistance : teen girls entering into and negotiating competitive heterosexualised, postfeminist femininity
- 8. Girls negotiating postfeminist, sexualised media contexts
- 9. Conclusion : ways forward for feminism and education.
