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Elizabeth Mackinlay; Renée T. Mickelburgh; Margaret Henderson; Bonnie Evans; Christina Gowlett – Gender and Education, 2024
This essay details research into feminist digital activism in the Australian context through analysing the themes that emerged from the Teach Us Consent website. It provides a preliminary analysis of its contents as a means to continue and deepen the conversation around issues of gender, consent, and the education system. It also examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Activism, Sex
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Gray, Emily M.; Pollitt, Joanna; Blaise, Mindy – Gender and Education, 2022
This paper gives an account of a series of three Zoom zine-making workshops run between March and July 2020 that were themed "the political," "the personal" and "the practical." A micro-reading of the zines is offered as data that mirror the aims of the workshops, to queer time by slowing down and creating a pause.…
Descriptors: Activism, Periodicals, Feminism, COVID-19
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Dyer, Suzette; Hurd, Fiona – Gender and Education, 2018
We examine student perceptions about feminists and feminism, and the willingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in collective activism, as stated at the beginning and end of a Women's Studies course. Course participation simultaneously fostered more positive views towards feminists and feminism and entrenched the unwillingness to claim a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change
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Egan, R. Danielle; Hawkes, Gail Louise – Gender and Education, 2012
Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and nuanced examination. Drawing on materials from the Social Purity Movement (1860-1910) as well as contemporary anti-sexualisation literature, this article argues that a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Sexuality, History, Literature
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Ringrose, Jessica; Renold, Emma – Gender and Education, 2012
This viewpoint begins by exploring whether the global phenomenon of the 2011 "SlutWalks" constitutes a feminist politics of re-signification. We then look at some qualitative, focus group data with teen girls who participated in a UK SlutWalk. We suggest girls are not only negotiating a schizoid double pull towards performing knowing…
Descriptors: Females, Focus Groups, Gender Issues, Sexuality
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Francis, Becky; Hey, Valerie – Gender and Education, 2009
This viewpoint explores and shares our experience of "doing" feminism in the context of its apparent "demise". We were recently invited to attend an event at the Cabinet Office, to "discuss the impact aspirations and expectations within the community have on the educational achievement of young people in deprived…
Descriptors: Seminars, Educational Attainment, Feminism, Academic Achievement
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Purvis, June – Gender and Education, 2008
In this article, a biographical overview is offered of the life of [Estelle] Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), suffragette, political activist, artist and writer, in order to provide a context for her 1959 proposal for an Ethiopian women's college, which is published for the first time in this journal. Sylvia, one of five children born in Manchester,…
Descriptors: Feminism, War, Foreign Countries, Artists