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Struggles to subvert the gendered field: issues of masculinity, rurality and class
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posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by Amanda KeddieAmanda Keddie, C Mills, M MillsThis article explores the complex struggles associated with intersections of class, rurality and masculinity, and the ways in which such intersections work to preserve a gendered status quo within and beyond school communities in Australia. Drawing on the stories of Monica and Phoebe, two teachers who understand schooling as a site of contestation, resistance and possibility for gender justice, the article draws on the theoretical constructs of Bourdieu to make visible the struggles for power arising from the gendered distribution of capital in schools located in low socio‐economic rural communities. In making sense of these struggles, we identify strategies of conservation that seek to reinscribe gender inequities and preserve the field and the taken‐for‐granted understandings of females and femininity as subordinate to males and masculinity within it. We also identify pedagogies of subversion employed by Phoebe and Monica and highlight the potential of these practices to disrupt the field in ways that seek to broaden and transform the gendered habitus of students.
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Pedagogy, culture & societyVolume
16Issue
2Pagination
193 - 205Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1468-1366eISSN
1747-5104Language
engPublication classification
X Not reportable; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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