Socio-Legal Studies - Gender & Sexuality

This collection brings together a range of different perspectives on the relationship between masculinity and education, offering both empirical and theoretical contributions to our understanding of this subject and focusing on a variety of educational settings._x000D_ This book was originally publi..

Originally published in 1998. This book offers a balanced overview of the issues surrounding boys and education...

This book addresses the global ‘feminised’ pattern of gender and teaching where men are in a minority, especially in work with younger children. Leading contributors raise critical questions about men’s continuing reluctance to engage in this type of work, the construction of masculinities, the infl..

Originally published in 1985. This book explores issues around education for women and uses the British experience as an example of what adult education in its variety can offer to women in breaking traditional moulds...

This book focuses on queering texts with LGBT themes in collaboration with students and their teachers. It strives to generate knowledge and deeper understandings of the pedagogical implications for working with LGBT-themed texts in classrooms. It was first published as a special issue of Discourse:..

Queer Inclusion in Teacher Education explores the challenges and promises of building queer inclusive pedagogy and curriculum into teacher education. Weaving together theory, research findings, and practical "how-to" strategies and materials, it fills an important gap by offering a clear roadmap and..

Queer Theory: Law, Culture Empire takes up the instability of the label 'queer' in order to consider what queer theory can bring to an exploration of the confines and openings provided by law, culture, and empire...

Building on the recent wave of scholarship on queerness in families and how families intersect with schools, schooling and educational institutions more broadly, this book considers how we are taught to enact family at home, at school and through the media, and how this pedagogy has shifted and chan..

Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives explores the impact that recent seismic shifts in the legal landscape have had for lesbians and gay men...

Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates the complex relationship between the state and the normative regulation of women who cross national borders...

As School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youths illustrates, the consequences of the cognitive, social, and emotional isolation that sexual minority youths experience as a result of homophobia and heterosexism can be devastating. With this book's helpful suggestions, provocative insight, and open ch..

This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legislation prohibiting such discrimination and despite apparent concern with promoting equality between the sexes in education. Focusing on the current situ..