1st Edition

Gender Un/Bound Traversing Educational Possibilities

Edited By Susanne Gannon, Ampersand Pasley, Jayne Osgood Copyright 2025
344 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection is focused on the possibilities for unbinding people from gendered expectations in and around educational spaces, and accounts for the ways gender is reconstituted in and through education. This book presents a broad interpretation of gender, of what education might mean, and where educational experiences manifest. It explores more conventional schooling spaces to communally... Read more

Introduction: Routes, tools and coalitions for un/binding gender

1. The Future is Fungal? Unboxing gender and sexuality in the ‘lower plants’ collections

 

2. Transmogrifying blocks: Endarkening gender in nursery encounters

 

3. Messy matters: Disturbing the forces of constraining masculinities with/in creative praxis

4. Transmaterial walking with student video dartaphact: A diffractive encounter with gender matterings of school spaces

 

5. ‘Oh, my gosh! Everybody just chill a little bit!’: Unbinding gender justice in the senior Literature classroom

6. Nine Hauntings, or “colonisation really was a good thing”: A critical Indigiqueercrip retrospective on colonial gender in the New Zealand schooling system

7. ‘Not just a tick on a form’: Working towards gender justice in secondary schools

8. Underneath the black feathers: Creatively unboXing the more-than of gender identity

9. “We’re so outside normal, we’ve become normal”: Examining nuances of the visibility continuum for trans parents

 

10. Constructing Tunay na Lalaki/True Manhood as Elite Manhood through Philippine Universities

11. Un/binding the ruins of Academia: Tales from compostings (with) Gender and other ruinous concepts

12. HERE THERE AGAIN: Sexism's Everyday Spaces within Australian Universities

13. The idiot box: Alternative world-making pedagogies in Pinky Malinky’s unserious content

14. Rural girls and small acts of resistance: Friendship, identities, futures

15. Gender as immanence; hauntings, polyphonic subjectivity and resistance in education

16. The Gift of Gender Inheritance – A Shared Response-ability

17. Mana Tamaiti: Un/binding Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Autonomy with Mātauranga Māori and Intergenerational Dialogue

18. Un/binding gender in preschool: Gender expansion work in early years education

19. Renegotiating the ‘Asian woman’ in Education: Three Lives

 

20. Slippery solidarity: Feminists researching about gender justice with elite boys’ school alumni

 

21. Epistemic injustice as a framework for exploring young women’s experiences of the incarceration/education nexus

22. Exploring possibilities for gender to become otherwise: what do child-snail relations make possible?

Biography

Susanne Gannon is Professor of Education and Associate Dean (Research) at Western Sydney University, Australia. She researches equity issues in education, including gender, poverty and diversity in secondary schooling. Her interests lie in post-methodologies that animate affect, materiality and discourse in everyday life. She is a previous editor of Gender & Education.  

Ampersand Pasley is a Marsden research fellow and lecturer at Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa New Zealand. They lecture on gender and sexuality, coloniality, disability and education. Their research explores the possibilities of whole-school sexuality education if it were reimagined around the interests of trans and irawhiti takatāpui young people.

Jayne Osgood is Professor of Childhood at Middlesex University. Her feminist approach is framed by critical posthumanism and a deep commitment to addressing inequities of all kinds through teaching, research and knowledge exchange. She has written extensively in the post-foundational paradigm with over 100 publications. She is editor of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology and until recently editor of Gender & Education. She edits three book series that bring research and practice together.