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Pilkington, Hilary – Gender and Education, 2017
This article revisits the view that women are absent or insignificant across the extreme right spectrum. It draws on ethnographic research with grassroots activists in the English Defence League to explore whether a new generation of populist radical right movements offers a gender politics and practice capable of appealing to women and LGBT…
Descriptors: Politics, Gender Issues, Sexuality, Social Bias
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Taylor, Yvette – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
This article aims to address concerns about schools as locations where students grapple, materially and subjectively, with class-based notions of femininity, the promotion of heterosexuality and the support of hetero-normative, middle-class families against, and in contrast with, their own working-class families, identities and experiences. Two…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, Sexuality, Working Class
Skelton, Christine – 2001
This book explores where masculinity is in primary schools. It has been argued by some commentators that a contributory factor to boys' underachievement is the predominance of women teachers in primary schools which has led to classroom management and teaching styles that favor girls. As this book shows, primary schools produce a range of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Females, Feminist Criticism, Foreign Countries