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Pomerantz, Shauna; Raby, Rebecca – Gender and Education, 2020
This article adds to the literature on smart girlhood by exploring the topic through Karen Barad's theory of post-human performativity. We focus on the transcripts of two participants from a larger study on girls and academic success in Canada in order to highlight the material, discursive, embodied, and temporal entanglements that co-produce the…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Human Body, Talent
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Arar, Khalid; Shapira, Tamar – Gender and Education, 2016
This paper discusses the decision of Muslim female principals in Israel to don the hijab following their appointment to school principalship. This research employed narrative life-story interviews to understand the women's decision to alter their appearance and how this transition is connected to their role as female school principals in the…
Descriptors: Principals, Muslims, Clothing, Arabs
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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