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"The Self-Made Self": Analysing the Potential Contribution to the Field of Gender and Education of Theories that Disembed Selfhood
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Francis, Becky; Skelton, Christine – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2008
The extent to which the ideas of certain influential, contemporary social theorists who arguably analyse selves as disembedded from social structures can contribute to the theorising of gender and education is explored in this article. We begin by considering hegemonic explanations of neo-liberal society and particularly the emphasis on…
Descriptors: Feminism, Individualism, Sex, Gender Issues