The ninth international Gender and Education Association conference, Compelling Diversities, Educational Intersections, will take place in London this week. Hosted by the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, papers, keynotes and symposia are setContinue reading
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The Importance of Girl Things
Why are girl things so despised? Consider the derisive response to music girls like, movies and television shows girls watch, social networking sites girls inhabit, activities in which girls engage, and the clothes girls wear.Continue reading
GEA 2013: Compelling Diversities, Educational Intersections: Policy, Practice, Parity
Gender and Education Association Biennial Conference 2013 Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University Tuesday 23rd– Friday 26th April 2013 Confirmed keynote speakers: – Prof. Lisa Adkins, University of Newcastle,Continue reading
In Memoriam: Eva Figes
Eva Figes, the author of Patriarchal Attitudes, died aged 80 in August 2012. Her book was published to popular British acclaim alongside several other signature books of women’s liberation, including The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer andContinue reading
Ester McGeeney on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA At the end of last month I started my week with a colleague from Sussex University, a few of our new masters students and a trip to the CLF theatreContinue reading
David Maguire on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA The working title for my research is: ‘Learning to Serve Time: troubling Spaces of Working Class Masculinity in the U.K’. It aims to explore, through the in-depth study of aContinue reading
Sarah Burton on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA Recently I had the pleasure of attending Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects:The London Riots one year on. The riots in August 2012 came just as I was preparing to beginContinue reading
Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On
A Conference Report for GEA Over the past year, academics have brought critical perspectives to bear on the complex causes and consequences of the English riots of 2011. Important questions have been raised about theContinue reading
Interested in becoming a GEA Executive Member?
The Gender and Education Association are looking for new executive members as several current members have completed their term of service. Being an executive member involves attending 2-3 face to face meetings each year (usuallyContinue reading
Modern Girlhoods: Growing up in the 21st Century
Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK Wednesday 8th February 2012 10.30-5pm The Gender & Education Association with the Centre of Youth Work Studies and the Educational Department at Brunel University, and the British Sociological Association’s Youth StudyContinue reading
