ABSTRACT

This collection establishes a highly topical, new, international field of study: that of gender, education and citizenship. It brings together for the first time important cutting-edge research on the contribution of the educational system to the formation of male and female citizens. It shows how gender relations operate behind apparently neutral concepts of liberal democratic citizenship and citizenship education.
The editors asked leading international educationalists to describe the theoretical frameworks and methodologies they used to research gender and citizenship.
Challenging Democracy suggests ways in which the educational system could help develop genuinely inclusive democratic societies in which men and women play an equal role in shaping the meaning of citizenship.

chapter Chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction

part 1|84 pages

Discursive framings of female citizenship and female education

chapter Chapter 2|20 pages

Feminist political frameworks

New approaches to the study of gender, citizenship and education

chapter |17 pages

Citizenship, identity and social justice

The intersection of feminist and post-colonial discourses

chapter Chapter 4|15 pages

Redefining citizenship

Black women educators and ‘the third space'

chapter |14 pages

Embodied identity

Citizenship education for American girls

chapter Chapter 6|16 pages

Transnational visions of the 1990s

Contrasting views of women, education and citizenship

part 2|81 pages

Teachers' identities and public identifications

chapter Chapter 7|17 pages

Motherhood and citizenship

Educational conflicts in Portugal

chapter Chapter 10|23 pages

Women in teacher education

Their struggles for inclusion as ‘citizen-workers' in late modernity

part 3|72 pages

Schooling and the construction of the gendered citizen

chapter Chapter 11|16 pages

From pupil to citizen

A gendered route

chapter Chapter 13|22 pages

Discipline and democracy

Race, gender, school sanctions and control

chapter Chapter 14|19 pages

Young women in Argentina

Citizenship representations and practices in the context of transition

part 4|73 pages

Citizenship education and new democratic agendas

chapter Chapter 15|19 pages

Sexuality and citizenship education

chapter Chapter 16|19 pages

The civil school and civil society

Gender, democracy and development

chapter Chapter 17|15 pages

Defining a civic agenda

Citizenship and gender equality in post-apartheid education

chapter Chapter 18|18 pages

Cyberfeminism and citizenship?

Challenging the political imaginary