Girls, Single-Sex Schools, and Postfeminist Fantasies

ISBN-13: 9781032239217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Stephanie McCall

Opis

Bringing together feminist theory, girlhood studies, and curriculum theory, this book contributes an in-depth critical analysis of curriculum in single-gender schooling for girls in postfeminist landscapes of "unlimited choices" and resurgences of proper girlhood.

Spis treści

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Preface

Chapter 1: The education of "successful" girls in single-sex schools

Chapter 2: A curriculum of girlhood

Chapter 3: A place for girls

Chapter 4: High hopes and curriculum as "makeover"

Chapter 5: High hopes and a pedagogy of privilege

Chapter 6: Cruel futures, and other postfeminist failures

Chapter 7: A critical education for girls

Appendix

Index

O autorze

Stephanie D. McCall is Assistant Professor in Professional and Secondary Education at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.