Girls' Identities and Experiences of Oppression in Schools: Resilience, Resistance, and Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780367629441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 174 str.

Britney G. Brinkman; Kandie Brinkman; Deanna Hamilton

Opis

This book uses an intersectional approach to explore the ways in which girls and adults in school systems hold multiple realities, negotiate tensions, resist oppression, and envision transformation. It offers a range of pedagogies, policies, and practices educators can adopt, making it ideal for professionals, policy makers and academics.

Spis treści

Introduction, Part I. Resilience, 1. What is Resilience Anyway, and Who Decided?, 2. Good Girls, Smart Girls, and Super Girls, 3. Gotta Get By: Conformity and Survival Dissonance, Part II. Resistance, 4. Resistance to Gender Stereotypes and Sexism, 5. Caution! Thin Ice: Navigating Fragile Masculinity, 6. "Are my Skorts Distracting You?": Girls' Resistance to Sexual Violence, Part III. Transformation, 7. Planting Seeds of Change: Girl-led Activism, 8. Start Anywhere, Follow it Everywhere: Pathways for Educational Transformation, 9. Expanding Possibilities: Creating New Visions for Education, Appendix A: Student Participants, Appendix B: Educator Participants