1st Edition

Answering Back Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers.... Read more
Introduction 1 That mysterious gap ‘between hope and happening’ 2 Success 3 Knowledge 4 Power 5 Emotion 6 Responsibility, Conclusion

Biography

Jill Blackmore, Jane Kenway, Leonie Rennie, Sue Willis

'Fascinating, unexpected, depressing, amusing, challenging and well worth reading. This book should reinvigorate gender policy.' - British Journal of Education Studies

'This is a very good book indeed.' - British Educational Research Journal, vol25 no. 5