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Negotiating masculinities and bodies in schools : the implications of gender theory for the education of boys / Kevin G. Davison ; with a foreword by William F. Pinar.

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Van Pelt Library LC1390 .D38 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Davison, Kevin G.
Contributor:
James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Boys--Education--Social aspects.
Boys.
Masculinity.
Sex differences in education--Social aspects.
Sex differences in education.
Gender identity.
Boys--Education.
Social aspects.
Physical Description:
viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Edwin Mellen Press, [2007]
Contents:
Foreword / by William F. Pinar
Preface / by Maírtin Mac an Ghaill
Acknowledgements
Epigraph
Causing complexity
Introduction
Autobiographical deposits
Textual foreshadowing
Theoretical toolkit for building gender literacies
Gender and bodies
Transgender bodies
Transbody gender
The postmodern push
Renegotiating the body
Masculinities
Conclusion
Technologies and the renegotiation of gender and bodies
Histories of technologies and the presence of gender
Typewriter spiritualists, electric communication, and the uncanny image
Technologies and realities - shifty meanings
Gendered bodies researching gendered bodies
Postmodern research - slippery balancing
Flesh and fiction
Flesh and friction - presence on-line
Theory and fiction
Ethics of present and absent bodies
Bodies on the edge of gender
Science (of) fiction - data analysis
Demographic fictions and arrested identities
Being and knowing
The body engendered
Bodies on-line and on the line
New articulations - twists and turns, and returns
Walter Benjamin and dialectical imagery
Image-space and/in cyberspace
An image for research in the postmodern condition
Public panics about gender & schooling
Plotting the 'panic'
Escape from zero-sum
Ethics and aesthetics of gender and bodies in schools
Fractured fictions and future convictions
Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-228) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
ISBN:
9780773453548
0773453547
OCLC:
140108608

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