1st Edition

Questioning Gender Politics Contextualising Educational Disparities in Uncertain Times

Edited By Jessie A. Bustillos Morales Copyright 2025
    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities In Uncertain Times showcases contemporary thinking on pressing aspects of gender equalities, such as patriarchal culture, sexual harassment, trans rights, queer pedagogies and sex education in various educational settings and international contexts.

    This book illustrates how education is an important physical, material and ideological site for understanding and challenging stubborn gender inequalities. Questioning Gender Politics positions itself within existing theorisations and research outlining how gender issues and sexist power cultures have in many cases changed from plain to more insidious inequalities. The notion of education is also expanded to include a broader understanding of how gender issues impinge education. The range of work explored in this volume includes contributions on: modern conceptualisations of gender, feminism and education, transnormativities, queer theory, intersectional pedagogy, postheteronormativity in education, and more.

    Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities In Uncertain Times is of great value to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Gender and Education, as well as seasoned educators.

    List of Contributors

    Acknowledgements

    1 Introduction: Questioning Gender Politics in Education

    Jessie A. Bustillos Morales

    2 Exploring the Pedagogical Possibilities of Various Gender Ontologies

    And Pasley and Sophie Lehner

    3 Making Sense of the Need to Queer Curriculum, Pedagogy and Practice

    Tabitha Millet

    4 The Power of Extracurricular Pedagogies with Young Black Women in 21st Century British Schools: ‘we grow, we relearn, we redefine’

    Camilla Stanger and Amina Ali

    5 Heteronormativity Critical Agency: Creating Inclusive Schools

    Tamás Fütty, Ayla Fedorchenko, Mart Busche

    6 Teaching Caring Masculinities in ECEC and Primary Schools

    Daniel Holtermann, Erika Bernacchi, Elli Scambor, Majda Hrženjak, Antonio Raimondo Di Grigoli

    7 Gender Knowledge and Gender Relations on Higher Education Sport and Physical Education Courses

    Professor Philippa Velija and Dr Catherine Phipps

    8 The Neoliberal University and Masculine Values: What About Care?

    Isaura Castelao-Huerta

    9 The Body, Male Gaze and Sexual Harassment in Higher Education

    Naomi Davis, Brian McDonough and Jan Parker

    10 Neoliberal Academic Speeds and the Desire to Slow Down (in) Academia as a Feminist Practice of Resistance

    Domitilla Olivieri and Iraia Elorduy Alverde

    11 Feminist Teaching Practice as Drawing from Oneself: Combining Knowledge, Care and Lived Experiences in the University

    Diana Fernández Romero

    12 Teaching Sexuality Education in China During Times of Uncertainty

    Zixi Zuo

    13 Rethinking Young Women’s Sex Education: Sexual Vulnerability and Affective Relations
    Rachel Levi Herz and Miri Rozmarin

    14 The need for inclusive Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) to Respond to ‘Risky’ Youth Online Practices: Groomed with Cisheteronormativity

    Scott David Kerpen

    15 Gendering and Transforming Engineering Education: A Philosophical Perspective on the Gendered Limits of Choice

    Sebastian Bernhard, Carmen Leicht-Scholten

     

     Index

     

    Biography

    Jessie A. Bustillos Morales is a Senior Lecturer in the Education Division at London South Bank University (LSBU). She holds a Ph.D. in Education from University College London (UCL). She has worked in academia for over thirteen years across several institutions in the UK.