Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods charts the evolving nature of feminist theory and research methods in childhood studies and the generative potential this holds for researchers, academics and educators to continue to push ideas and practices. The book traces the threads of affect and effect that feminist theories and methodologies have made over time to thinking more, and differently, about gender in childhood. In the wake of the ‘new materialist turn’ in feminist research, the book sought to address two pressing questions: what is especially new about feminist new materialism, and what is especially feminist about feminist new materialism. These questions are generative, troubling, unsettling and invited the contributors on an adventure that involved re-turning and reconfiguring ideas and practices about gender and childhood. Along with the editors, Jayne Osgood (UK), and Kerry H. Robinson (Australia), five key international feminist scholars, Mindy Blaise (Australia), Bronwyn Davies (Australia), Debbie Epstein (UK), Jen Lyttleton-Smith (UK), and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (Canada) collaborated on this book project. Their reflective accounts capture the contribution of their own work and that of their peers, to advancing research practices and theorisations of gender in childhood. Having all approached the study of gendered childhoods in creative and critical ways, these important feminist researchers re-engage and critically reflect on their earlier work alongside their more contemporary contributions to the field. The book is as much about the processes involved in its creation as it about the material/digital end product. The chapters work with both familiar and unfamiliar feminist methodological frameworks that bring affect, materiality and embodiment, as well as textual representations of gender and childhood, into play. The book engages with, and generates artwork, poetry, photographs as a means to grapple with how gender, childhood, family, curriculum and policy have been, and might be researched. The book captures a lively, collaborative, feminist experiment that sought to make space for fresh conceptualisations of gender in childhood. Issues addressed include: social justice and transformative methodologies in childhood research; advancing theoretical perspectives that contribute to fresh understandings of gender in young children’s lives; the ways that research into gender in childhood play out in educational agendas; and the specific gender issues perceived critical to address in contemporary childhoods lived in the post-Anthropocene.
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Foreword, Hillevi Lenz-Taguchi Acknowledgements 1: Introduction, Jayne Osgood and Kerry H. Robinson 2: Re-Turns and Dis/Continuities of Feminist Thought in Childhood Research: Indebtedness and Entanglements, Jayne Osgood and Kerry H. Robinson 3: Re-Turning Again: Dis/Continuities and Theoretical Shifts in the Generational Generation of Discourses about Gender in Early Childhood Education, Kerry H. Robinson and Jayne Osgood 4: ‘I Like Your Costume’: Dress Up Play and Feminist Trans-Theoretical Shifts, Kerry H Robinson and Jen Lyttleton-Smith 5: Materialised Reconfigurations of Gender in Early Childhood: Playing Seriously with Lego, Jayne Osgood 6: Enacting Feminist Materialist Movement Pedagogies in the Early Years, Mindy Blaise and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw 7: (In)-Conclusion(s): What Gets Produced Through Layering Feminist Thought? References Index
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Debates the vital contribution feminist scholars have made and continue to make to advancing understandings of gender in childhood.
The dialogic format of the book sets it apart from other books framed by feminist, post-foundational methodologies
Drawing on feminist scholarship, this boundary-pushing series explores the use of creative, experimental, new materialist and posthumanist research methodologies that address various aspects of childhood. Feminist Thought in Childhood Research foregrounds examples of research practices within feminist childhood studies that engage with posthumanism, science studies, affect theory, animal studies, new materialisms and other post-foundational perspectives that seek to decentre human experience. Books in the series offer lived examples of feminist research praxis and politics in childhood studies. The series includes authored and edited collections - from early career and established scholars - addressing past, present and future childhood research issues from a global context. Series Editors: Jayne Osgood is Professor of Education at the Centre for Education Research & Scholarship at Middlesex University, UK. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is Professor in Early Childhood Studies in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, Canada. Editorial Board: Mindy Blaise (Edith Cowan University, Australia) Fikile Nxumalo (OISE, University of Toronto, Canada) Karin Murris (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Cristina Delgado (York University, Canada) Jenny Ritchie (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Liz Jones (Professor Emerita at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Hillevi Lenz Taguchi (Stockholm University, Sweden) Jennifer Sumsion (Charles Sturt University, Australia) Liselott Olsson (Södertörn University, Sweden) EJ Renold (Cardiff University, UK)
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474285780
Publisert
2019-02-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
445 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
192

Om bidragsyterne

Jayne Osgood is Professor of Education at Middlesex University, UK and Visiting Professor at Oslo Met University, Norway. Kerry H. Robinson is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University, Australia, and Leader of Sexualities and Genders Research (SaGR).