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Variyan, George; Wilkinson, Jane – Gender and Education, 2022
This paper details the gendered oppressions of young female teachers in three elite boys' private schools in Australia. Drawing on Foucauldian analytics and the theory of practice architectures, we explore the discourses and practices that work together to silence and disempower female teachers in these schools. There is an unevenness in these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Private Schools, Single Sex Schools
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Lambert, Cath; Williams, Sian; Douglas, Roxanne – Gender and Education, 2023
Universities are increasingly recognized as spaces and cultures where gendered and sexualized harassment is endemic. This article pays close attention to the manifestations of sexualized behaviours in a campus university in the UK, examining some of the ways in which formations of masculinity are encouraged and reproduced through university…
Descriptors: College Environment, School Culture, Sexual Harassment, Gender Bias
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Stephanie Wescott; Steven Roberts; Xuenan Zhao – Gender and Education, 2024
There is growing visibility of online 'manfluencers' who espouse extreme masculine ideals and share them with their audiences of boys and young men. Taking this phenomenon as a launch-pad, we join the tradition of research that exposes sexism in schools and theorizes girls and women's experiences of working within and against masculine hegemony.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Robinson, Kerry H. – Gender and Education, 2005
This paper, based on the perspectives of young men, explores the relationship between dominant constructions of masculinities and the sexual harassment of young women in Australian secondary schools, within a feminist poststructuralist theoretical framework. Of particular importance in this process are the ways in which sexual harassment is…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Peer Acceptance, Secondary Schools, Masculinity
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Mirembe, Robina; Davies, Lynn – Gender and Education, 2001
This study of AIDS education in Uganda used an ethnography of school culture to explore the contradictions in curriculum intervention. Male domination and power imbalances in the school encouraged attitudes and practices with regard to sexual relationships that negated the official messages of the AIDS curriculum. Examines four forms of school…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Comprehensive School Health Education, Discipline, Foreign Countries