1st Edition
Pedagogical Responses to the Changing Position of Girls and Young Women
Introduction: Pedagogical responses to the changing position of girls and young women Carrie Paechter, Rosalyn George and Angela McRobbie
1. Changing times, future bodies? The significance of health in young women’s imagined futures Emma Rich and John Evans
2. From DIY to teen pregnancy: new pathologies, melancholia and feminist practice in contemporary English youth work Fin Cullen
3. A girl is no girl is a girl_: Girls-work after queer theory Mart Busche
4. ‘Too pretty to do math!’ Young women in movement and pedagogical challenges Ulrike Graff
5. Becoming accomplished: concerted cultivation among privately educated young women Claire Maxwell and Peter Aggleton
6. Dissident daughters? The psychic life of class inheritance Valerie Hey and Rosalyn George
7. Young women online: collaboratively constructing identities Carrie Paechter
8. Growing-up challenged and challenging: gender and sexuality norms in referential research on ‘internet risks’ and in children Renata Šribar
9. Trainee hairdressers’ uses of Facebook as a community of gendered literacy practice Julia Davies
10. ‘Not girly, not sexy, not glamorous’: primary school girls’ and parents’ constructions of science aspirations Louise Archer, Jennifer DeWitt, Jonathan Osborne, Justin Dillon, Beatrice Willis and Billy Wong
Biography
Carrie Paechter is Professor of Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research centres on the intersection of gender, power and knowledge, the construction of gendered, spatialised and embodied identities, and the processes of curriculum negotiation. She is particularly interested on how children construct themselves as gendered, embodied, social actors.
Rosalyn George is Professor of Education and Equality at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research is in the areas of social justice, education, and schooling, especially with regard to gender and race. Her current work focuses on recent forms of migration and its impact on the promotion of non-colour-coded racism.
Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her fields of expertise are young women and popular culture; feminist theory; the new creative economy; and the rise of 'cultural labour process'. Her current research includes an investigation of the working lives of young fashion designers in London, Berlin, and Milan.
