Gender Lessons

Patriarchy, Sextyping & Schools
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-94-6300-029-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Teaching Gender

Public schools in early America were designed to ensure the reproduction of Eurocentric social values. It could be argued that little has changed. Gender Lessons takes an in-depth look at how schools institutionalize gender—how kids are taught the rules and expectations of performing masculinity and femininity. This work provides extensive examples of how elementary, middle, and high schools: sextype; defend and preserve patriarchy; weave gendered expectations in all things school related; promote inequity; and limit their students’ potential by explicitly and implicitly teaching that they must fit into only one of two boxes…“girl” or “boy.” Richardson argues that schools—a powerful and wide reaching publicly funded mechanism—should be engaged in social (re)imagination that disbands the antiquated girl/boy and feminine/masculine binary so that kids might have a chance at being themselves. This book is sure to provoke conversation in courses and professional communities interested in education, gender studies, social work, sociology, counseling and guidance.

Cover art: Emily A. Pellini

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Richardson, Ph.D. is a curriculum theorist and researcher in the areas of gender, sexuality and democratic, alternative, and international education. He is the author of eleMENtary School: (Hyper)Masculinity in a Feminized Context (Sense Publishers).