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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151582103321

Autore

Rawlings Victoria

Titolo

Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School : 'Sluts', 'Gays' and 'Scrubs' / / by Victoria Rawlings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

1-137-52302-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 305 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, , 2524-6445

Disciplina

370.81

Soggetti

Gender identity in education

Educational sociology

Sociology

Educational sociology 

Education and sociology

Slang

Child psychology

School psychology

Gender and Education

Sociology of Education

Gender Studies

Slang and Jargon

Child and School Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Unpacking and Re-framing 'Bullying' -- Chapter 3. Gender Regulation -- Chapter 4. Head Teacher and Principal Realities -- Chapter 5. Student Realities -- Chapter 6. 'Kick a Slut in the Head Day' -- Chapter 7. Recognising Power, Privilege and Context. .

Sommario/riassunto

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 which is based on qualitative research, including interviews and group sessions which are used to emphasize the real-life experiences of young people in schools today. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book has a broad appeal and will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, sociology, and education.