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Tsaousi, Christiana – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This paper focuses on how female academics in UK universities use dress to construct their professional identity. The paper draws on the current literature on dress, body and academic identity and uses a theoretical framework of Goffman's work of performance and Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital and habitus to explore these women's attempts…
Descriptors: Clothing, Professional Identity, Women Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Ringrose, Jessica; Renold, Emma – Gender and Education, 2012
This viewpoint begins by exploring whether the global phenomenon of the 2011 "SlutWalks" constitutes a feminist politics of re-signification. We then look at some qualitative, focus group data with teen girls who participated in a UK SlutWalk. We suggest girls are not only negotiating a schizoid double pull towards performing knowing…
Descriptors: Females, Focus Groups, Gender Issues, Sexuality
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Willett, Rebekah – Gender and Education, 2008
This article reports findings from a study in which 26 girls aged 12- to 13-years-old took part in workshops at a specialist ICT center connected to a school in inner-city London. The girls explored and discussed fashion as presented online, and they produced their own interactive fashion design webpages, making decisions about body shapes, types…
Descriptors: Females, Self Concept, Teaching Methods, Preadolescents