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'Spice Girls', 'Nice Girls', 'Girlies', and 'Tomboys': Gender discourses, girls' cultures and femininities in the primary classroom
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This paper argued that contemporary gendered power relations are more complicated and contradictory than the new orthodoxy that girls are doing better than boys suggests, and that despite widely differentiated practices, all the girls at various times acted in ways which bolstered boys' power at the expense of their own.Abstract:
The past decade has seen a growing political and academic concern with boys' underachievement. Drawing on the case study of a London primary classroom, this article argues that contemporary gendered power relations are more complicated and contradictory than the new orthodoxy that girls are doing better than boys suggests. The girls in this case study took up very varied positions in relation to traditional femininities. Yet, despite widely differentiated practices, all the girls at various times acted in ways which bolstered boys' power at the expense of their own. While peer group discourses constructed girls as harder working, more mature and more socially skilled, still the boys and a significant number of the girls adhered to the view that it is better being a boy. The article concludes that in this particular primary school, girls and boys still learned many of the old lessons of gender relations which work against gender equity.read more
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Masculine femininities/feminine masculinities: power, identities and gender
TL;DR: The authors discuss the problems of defining both'masculinity' and 'femininity', and a consideration of the power relations between these terms, and consider the concept of "female masculinity" (Halberstam).
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Unveiled Sentiments: Gendered Islamophobia and Experiences of Veiling among Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a narrative analysis of the politics of veiling in schools and society, and the voices of young Muslim women attending a Canadian Islamic school speak to the contested notion of gender identity in Islam.
Opening up pathways : engagement in STEM across the primary-secondary school transition
TL;DR: A review of the literature concerning supports and barriers to science, technology, engineering and mathematics engagement at primary-secondary transition was conducted by the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
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Between "Girl Power" and "Reviving Ophelia": Constituting the Neoliberal Girl Subject
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the two discourses position girls in varying ways in relation to the emerging configurations of subjectification demanded by shifting relations of production, globalizing economies, and redefined relationships between governments and citizens related to the rise of neoliberal policy and practice.
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“Balancing acts'': Elementary school girls' negotiations of femininity, achievement, and science
TL;DR: The authors explored the identity work undertaken by the minority of girls who do identify with science and who express science aspirations at this age and argued that dominant associations of science with "cleverness" and masculinity pressurize girls to balance their science aspirations with performances of popular heterofemininity to render them "thinkable" (and that this occurs only within narrow parameters, through identity performances as either "feminine scientists" or "bluestocking scientists".
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.
Edwin Ardener,Mary Douglas +1 more
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Language and Woman's Place
TL;DR: In this paper, the marginality and powerlessness of women is reflected in both the ways women are expected to speak, and the ways in which women are spoken of, in appropriate women's speech, strong expression of feeling is avoided, expression of uncertainty is favored, and means of expression in regard to subject-matter deemed 'trivial' to the real world are elaborated.
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Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how children and gender learning from kids boys and girls together but mostly apart gender separation - why and how creating a sense of "opposite sides" do girls and boys have different cultures? crossing the gender divide lip gloss and "goin' with" - becoming teens lessons for adults