1st Edition

Affect and the Making of the Schoolgirl A New Materialist Perspective on Gender Inequity in Schools

By Melissa Wolfe Copyright 2022
162 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 inequity is reproduced through presumptive thinking and a failure to recognize student potential.... Read more

1: Feeling-Thinking-Making More Equitable Lives through Education

2: Affective Pedagogical Intra-Action Making Inequity: An Apparatus

3: Affect: Feeling-Thinking-Making Belonging at School through Joy and Shame

4: Dis/Comforting Schoolgirl Figurations of Belonging

5: Dis/Comforting Subject-Choice: Agency, Anxiety, Affordance

6: Enabling Constraints for Angel-in-the-Making

7: Feeling-Thinking-Making Gendered and Raced School Spaces: The Materials Engineering Classroom and Basketball Court

8: Feeling-Thinking-Making - Joy

Biography

Melissa Joy Wolfe is Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education at Monash University, Australia