Answering Back: Girls, Boys, Teachers and Feminism in Schools

248 Pages·1998·1.4 MB·English

by  Jill Blackmore

Answering Back
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Answering Back
Girls, Boys and Feminism in
Schools
Jane Kenway and Sue Willis with
Jill Blackmore and Léonie Rennie
London and New York
First published in the UK 1998 by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1998 Jane Kenway and Sue Willis with Jill Blackmore and Leonie
Rennie
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,
or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or
retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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I have dreamt in my life dreams
that have stayed with me ever after,
they have changed my ideas:
they’ve gone through me, like wine through water,
and altered the colour of my mind
EMILY BRONTË
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
1 That mysterious gap ‘between hope and happening’ 1
2 Success 33
3 Knowledge 65
4 Power 97
5 Emotion 1 31
6 Responsibility 1 65
Conclusion 2 00
Notes 2 12
References 2 14
Index 2 19
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Acknowledgements
We wish to express our gratitude to the Australian Research Council
which funded much of the research upon which this book was
based. We wish to thank the many principals, teachers, students and
policy-makers who shared their ideas, time and daily activities with
us. The following people worked with us: Daphne Bastow, Janine
Collier, Shirley Dally, Merilyn Evans, Andrea Fulton, Linda
McGuckin, Vanessa Reynolds, Pauline Richards, Shirley Tucker and
Maggie Woodhead. We express our sincere appreciation to them all.
We also wish to thank Elizabeth Weiss and Bob Lingard for their
advice, encouragement and support as editors. We thank Deakin,
Murdoch and Curtin universities for providing us with the
institutional bases from which to undertake this research. Finally,
we thank our families for living the values we value.