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Schooling, normalisation, and gendered bodies : adolescent boys' and girls' experiences of gender and schooling

Martino, Wayne and Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria 2007, Schooling, normalisation, and gendered bodies : adolescent boys' and girls' experiences of gender and schooling, in International handbook of student experience in elementary and secondary school, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp.347-374.

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Title Schooling, normalisation, and gendered bodies : adolescent boys' and girls' experiences of gender and schooling
Author(s) Martino, Wayne
Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria
Title of book International handbook of student experience in elementary and secondary school
Editor(s) Thiessen, Dennis
Cook-Sather, Alison
Publication date 2007
Total chapters 33
Start page 347
End page 374
Total pages 28
Publisher Springer
Place of Publication Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Summary Dominant discourses construct boys and girls as two homogenous groups in need of particular, and uniform, kinds of interventions (Martino, Mills, & Lingard, 2005, Mills, Martino, & Lingard, 2004; Jones & Myhill, 2004). The boys and girls themselves, however, tell a much more complex story and challenge us to consider very different implications for addressing gender conformity and, more broadly, diversity in schools. In this chapter, the voices of students are used as text to explicate, first, how issues of gender, sexuality, social class, ethnicity and the body are implicated and interweave in girls’ and boys’ social experiences of schooling; and second, what the implications of this interweaving might be for addressing diversity in schools (Connell, 1995; 2002; Martino, 1999, 2000; Pallotta-Chiarolli, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2005). This work draws on and elaborates further our previous published research that investigates issues of gender and schooling. It locates such research within the broader international context of studies conducted into issues of gender and schooling that document student perspectives and voice (Fine & Weiss, 2003; Ferguson, 2001; Renold, 2003; Mac an Ghaill, 1994; Lees, 1993; Ornstein, 1995; Thorne, 1993; Mills, 2001; Hey, 1997; Willis,1977; Walker, 1988). The use of student voice as text is considered within that broader context and highlights the significance of gender regimes and power relations in students’ lives at school (Martino & Pallotta-Chiarolli, 2005; 2003; 2002; 2001; Pallotta-Chiarolli, 1998). We illustrate the extent to which the risky business of ‘fitting in’ involves negotiations around normative and transgressive masculinities and femininities and how such practices intersect with sexuality, race/culture, class, and geographical location (see James, 2003; Kumashiro, 2002).
Notes SpringerLink Date Sunday, June 03, 2007
ISBN 1402033664
9781402033667
1402033672
9781402033674
Language eng
Field of Research 130106 Secondary Education
HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30006897

Document type: Book Chapter
Collection: School of Health and Social Development
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