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Vares, Tiina; Jackson, Sue – Gender and Education, 2015
The focus on, and concern about, young girls and preteens or "tweens" relates to the "sexualisation" of girlhood and the notion that girls are "growing up too fast" and becoming "too sexy too soon". In both popular and academic accounts, "tween" magazines and the increasingly "sexualised"…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Females, Femininity, Gender Issues
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Allen, Louisa – Gender and Education, 2013
This paper revisits the missing discourse of female desire [Fine, M. 1988. Sexuality, schooling and adolescent females: The missing discourse of desire. "Harvard Educational Review" 58, no. 1: 29-53] in secondary schools. Instead of echoing previous studies that have documented how female desire is missing, this research starts from the…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Sexuality, Adolescents, Females
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Cushman, Penni – Gender and Education, 2008
The need for more male role models in young boys' lives is one of the main reasons underpinning the call for more male teachers in primary schools. However, the exact responsibilities and attributes associated with the term "male role model" have yet to be clearly established. The purpose of this survey of 250 New Zealand primary school…
Descriptors: Role Models, Foreign Countries, Males, Principals