Investigating Gender: Contemporary Perspectives in Education

Introduction - Part one: Gender as a category in educational research - Gender theory and research in education: modernist traditions and emerging contemporary themes - Obvious, all too obvious?: methodological issues in using sex/gender as a variable in educational research - Part two: Recent developments in gender theory - Using poststructuralist ideas in gender theory and research - Truth is slippery stuff - Beyond postmodernism: feminist agency in educational research - Re-searching, re-finding: exploring the unconsious as a pedagogic and research practice - Part three: Identity constructions revisited - Gender and the post-school experiences of women and men with learning difficulties - Issues of gender and sexuality in schools - Racialisation and gendering: in the (re)production of educational inequalities - 'Ice white and ordinary': new perspectives on ethnicity, gender and youth cultural identities - The paradox of contemporary femininities in education: combining fluidity with fixity - Typical boys? theorizing masculinity in educational settings - Social class, gender and schooling - Conclusion: Gender: school policies and practices - References - Index.