The new Gender & Education Series, edited by Yvette Taylor, provides a comprehensive space for an increasingly diverse and complex area of interdisciplinary social science research. As the field of women and gender studies is rapidly developing and becoming ‘internationalised’ – as with traditional social science disciplines of e.g. sociology, educational studies, social geography etc. – there is greater need for a dynamic, global Series that plots emerging definitions and debates, and monitors critical complexities of gender and education. These debates are captured within this Series, representing new feminist activisms and voices, emergent in contested educational contexts.

The Series will combine renewed and revitalized feminist research methods and theories with emergent and salient public and policy issues. These include pre, compulsory, and post-compulsory education, ‘early years’ and ‘life long’ education; educational (dis)engagements of pupils, students and staff; trajectories and intersectional inequalities incl. race, class, sexuality, age, disability; policy and practice across educational landscapes; diversity and difference, including institutional (schools, colleges, universities), locational and embodied (in ‘teacher’-‘learner’ positions); varied global activism in and beyond the classroom and the ‘public university’;  educational technologies and transitions and the relevance of (in)formal educational settings; emergent educational mainstreams and margins. In operating a critical approach to ‘gender and education’, the Series recognizes the importance of probing beyond the boundaries of specific territorial-legislative domains in order to develop a more international, intersectional focus. In addressing varied conceptual and methodological questions, the Series combines an intersectional focus on competing – and sometimes colliding – strands of educational provisioning, equality and ‘diversity’, as well as providing insightful reflections of the continuing critical shift of gender and feminism within (and beyond) the academy.

The Series remit is deliberately broad and responds to many inequalities and key, international legislative changes – as well as how these are taken up in practice. It will draw on new empirical research, and aims to make comparative analysis across time and place; methodological questions regarding fostering educational equality and inclusion; re-configured and re-emerging inequalities and their social-spatial dimensions; difference and diversity within communities and institutions; and questions of recognition and redistribution. It will have a particular focus on developing an extended theoretical and methodological conceptualisation, which incorporate the political, policy, social, economic, and cultural aspects of gender and education. Early titles include Michael Ward’s, Working-Class Masculinities, Education and Post-Industrialization

For more information about the Series contact Yvette Taylor: taylory@lsbu.ac.uk

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