This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in gender and education today. With an emphasis on contemporary pieces that deal with issues relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the most respected authors in the field today. Madeleine Arnot, highly regard for her work in this field, also includes a specially written introduction which provides a much-needed context to role of gender in the current educational climate. Students of education, with an interest in gender issues, will find this Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding.

Part 1: Gender and Educational Theory 1.Gender Theory and Research in Education: Modernist Traditions and Emerging Contemporary Themes 2. Troubling Boys and Disturbing Discourses on Masculinity and Schooling: A Feminist Exploration of Current Debates and Interventions Concerning Boys in School 3. Education and Gender Identity: Seeking Frameworks of Understanding Part 2: Difference and Power 4. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory 5. Identity, Abjection and Otherness: Creating the Self, Creating Difference 6. Masculine Domination: Permanence and Change 7. The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History Part 3: Identity Work 8. 'Spice Girls', Nice Girls, Girlies and Tomboys: Gender Discourses, Girls' Cultures and Femininities in the Primary Classroom 9. 'Lads and Laughter': Humour and the Production of Heterosexual Hierarchies 10. Gender-blind Racism in the Experience of Schooling and Identity Formation Part 4: Knowledge and Pedagogy 11. Boys don't Write Romance: The Construction of Knowledge and Social Gender Identities in English Classrooms 12. Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Constituting a Discourse of Erotics in Sexuality Education 13. Power, Bodies and Identity: How Different Forms of Physical Education Construct Varying Masculinities and Femininities in Secondary Schools 14. Masculinity, Violence and Schooling: Challenging 'Poisonous Pedagogies' Part 5: Reflexivity and Risk 15. Working Out Intimacy: Young People and Friendship in an Age of Reflexivity 16. Uneasy Hybrid: Psychosocial Aspects of Becoming Educationally Successful for Working-Class Young Women Project 4:21 - Transitions to Womanhood 17. Nomadic Subjects: Young Black Women in Britain Part 6: Gender and Citizenship 18. Citizenship Education and Gender 19. Citizenship and the Self Made Girl