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Direct linkBethune, Jennifer; Gonick, Marnina – Gender and Education, 2017
This paper is a critical discourse analysis of teacher resource materials about girl bullying. The "mean girl" phenomenon has been widely taken up as one of the current key narratives about schools and school girls. This paper argues for the importance of understanding the origins of this discourse within behavioural psychology, which…
Descriptors: Females, Discourse Analysis, Aggression, Psychology
Phipps, Alison – Gender and Education, 2017
In the context of renewed debates and interest in this area, this paper reframes the theoretical agenda around laddish masculinities in UK higher education, and similar masculinities overseas. These can be contextualised within consumerist neoliberal rationalities, the neoconservative backlash against feminism and other social justice movements,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Sex Stereotypes, Neoliberalism
Yamamoto, Yoko – Gender and Education, 2016
Despite increasing rates of university attendance among women, a significant gender gap remains in socialisation and educational processes in Japan. To understand why and how gender-distinctive socialisation processes persist, this study aimed to examine both middle-class and working-class mothers' beliefs about gender, education, and children's…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Differences, Futures (of Society), Asians
Maylor, Uvanney; Williams, Katya – Gender and Education, 2011
This viewpoint draws on discussions at two seminars to consider ambivalent attitudes amongst a group of Black women towards considering themselves and/or other Black people as "middle class". The first seminar highlighted the experiences of a group of Black "middle-class" parents and the second, which was organised as a result of the reaction the…
Descriptors: African American Community, Middle Class, Seminars, Females
Hutchison, Kirsten – Gender and Education, 2012
This paper develops a new analysis of homework by building on feminist scholarship which documents the invisible labour done by women in support of their children's education. While numerous studies have examined the relationship between homework and achievement, little attention has been paid to the largely gendered and potentially stressful…
Descriptors: Homework, Social Class, Mothers, Parent Participation
Allan, Alexandra Jane – Gender and Education, 2009
Drawing on recent ethnographic research in one single-sex, private primary school, this paper will explore what it meant for the girls in this setting to embody the discourse of the "lady". The paper will propose that classed and gendered discourses of respectability featured strongly in the girls' lives, as they were expected to behave…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Sexual Orientation, Sexuality
