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dc.contributor.authorKeddie, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:35:10Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:35:10Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-09-27T06:53:53Z
dc.identifier.issn14681811
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14681810802639863
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/34245
dc.description.abstractSince the 1970s many feminists working for gender justice in education have highlighted the predominance and seriousness of sexual harassment in schools and condemned the enduring trivialization of such behaviours. This paper develops this body of work by focusing on how issues of sexual harassment are located within prevailing contemporary western educational contexts that position boys as 'victims' of feminism and 'girl-friendly' schooling. It is argued here that such contexts draw attention away from the powerful spaces that many boys continue to inhabit in schools. Counter to the popular notion that girls no longer face problems in relation to their schooling, the paper foregrounds the voices of four (14-year-old) Grade Eight girls from Tasmania, Australia who detail their disturbing experiences of sexual harassment. Pointing to the grave inadequacies of common remedies used to address these behaviours, such as prescriptive discipline systems that ignore issues of gender and power and boy-friendly remedies that collude in the perpetuation of inequitable gender relations, the paper highlights the imperative of disrupting the erasure of these issues from current dominant equity debates and the urgency of better addressing this problem in schools. Along these lines, the paper calls for teacher practice that acts against the grain of broader anti-feminist and performative school cultures to transform the masculinities of entitlement that contribute to these unacceptable behaviours.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto16
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSex Education
dc.relation.ispartofvolume9
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGender, Sexuality and Education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic Health and Health Services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCurriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther Studies in Human Society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode130308
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1117
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1302
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1699
dc.titleSome of those girls can be real drama queens’: issues of gender, sexual harassment and schooling
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKeddie, Amanda


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