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Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School: ´Sluts´, ´Gays´ and ´Scrubs´
Victoria Rawlings
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Description for Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School: ´Sluts´, ´Gays´ and ´Scrubs´
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 325 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and deconstructs how bullying is shaped by prominent discourse. By drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory Victoria Rawlings highlights the social and cultural inequalities too often forgotten in analysis of aggressive behaviour in schools, and places particular emphasis on gender and sexuality as facilitating and constraining forces within school environments and bullying discourses. This book provides a necessary assessment as to why current anti-bullying approaches are failing, and offers an alternative explanation as to how and why bullying occurs. This is a timely and authoritative study ... Read more
This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and deconstructs how bullying is shaped by prominent discourse. By drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory Victoria Rawlings highlights the social and cultural inequalities too often forgotten in analysis of aggressive behaviour in schools, and places particular emphasis on gender and sexuality as facilitating and constraining forces within school environments and bullying discourses. This book provides a necessary assessment as to why current anti-bullying approaches are failing, and offers an alternative explanation as to how and why bullying occurs. This is a timely and authoritative study ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Number of Pages
305
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137523013
SKU
V9781137523013
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Ref
99-15
About Victoria Rawlings
Victoria Rawlings is Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK. She has taught in and researched the lived experiences of young people in both Australia and the UK, with a specific focus on how expectations of gender and sexuality influence their behaviours and social outcomes.
Reviews for Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School: ´Sluts´, ´Gays´ and ´Scrubs´
Rawlings does an exceptional job at dissuading the reader from traditional bullying theories by offering more contemporary theories ... . offering transcripts of student discourse along with teacher/principal discourse gives the reader an interesting look into the similarities that occur at both levels in a school system. ... Rawlings leaves her audience with a helpful and empirically backed start ... Read more