The Lost Girls Why A Feminist Revolution In Education Benefits Everyone

Author : Charlotte Woolley
Publisher : John Catt
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781398383784

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The Lost Girls: Why a feminist revolution in education benefits everyone by Charlotte Woolley Pdf

Life for girls is a battle of contrasting expectations, being told you should be 'empowered' but also be a 'good girl', putting others first but still striving for perfection yourself. This conflict, internalizing expectations of an impossible standard, has lead to an explosion in mental-health and anxiety-related disorders in young women. The traditional narrative of education feeds the perception that girls are good. They achieve, work hard, are co-operative. They achieve better grades. But where do these high achievers disappear to? They aren't becoming CEOs, politicians or social leaders. Women are still disproportionately the family carers and domestic managers. This book explores: * research around biological difference, and how our schools encode gendered expectations. * how our curricula can provide role-models as well as modes of thinking, valuing traditionally feminine traits as equal to masculine * using psychological approaches to develop girls' independence. * how school systems and leadership can model approaches to encourage all students to create a gender-balanced environment. With practical questions and suggestions at the end of each chapter, this book is a guide to the research and a tool to help teachers and leaders shape a genuinely empowering school experience for young women.

Author : Emma Sheppard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000814767

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A Guide to Teaching, Parenting and Creating Family Friendly Schools by Emma Sheppard Pdf

At The MTPT Project we know that teaching can be a sustainable career choice for parents, and in this essential handbook, we show you how. Supported by case studies celebrating the best that the family friendly schools and happy teachers in our community have to offer, this book is a lifeline for both educators aspiring to combine their passion for teaching with becoming a parent, and the school leader who wants to empower them. However you become a parent, or choose to grow your family and your career, this handbook will provide you with the guidance and cheerleading that you need to fulfil your personal and professional aspirations. The book is divided into nine chapters, guiding readers from the first considerations of family planning, all the way through to the reality that some teachers and leaders may choose to leave classrooms for good. Each chapter includes: the latest research on working families legalities associated with different stages of working parenthood (including discrimination and how to avoid it as an employer and address it as an employee) case studies from our community suggestions for individuals and schools recommended further reading. Each chapter will help you to navigate the journey from planning a family, to stepping in and out of teaching to suit your parenting needs, to creating family friendly working environments, whatever your role in school. With its mixture of research-informed solutions, hints and tips, this text is perfect for colleagues embarking on their parenting journey and school leaders who want to take practical steps to retain and empower valued colleagues.

Author : Matt Pinkett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000861594

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Boys Do Cry by Matt Pinkett Pdf

Schools are undergoing a mental health crisis and adult statistics surrounding male suicide paint a bleak picture of the future for boys in our schools. From bullying and sexism to traditional ideals of masculinity, outdated expectations of what it is to be male are causing boys to suffer. Research also shows that this is having a negative impact on girls in our schools. Clearly, the issue of boys’ mental wellbeing has never been so important. Boys Do Cry examines key research on factors impacting boys’ mental health and arms teachers with a range of practical strategies to start enacting positive change. Combining the latest research, personal anecdote, expert advice, and a uniquely engaging writing style, Matt Pinkett provides focused, evidence-based guidance on what those working in schools can do to improve and maintain the mental wellbeing of boys. The chapters follow an easy-to-navigate three-part structure, detailing personal stories, key research and practical solutions to the problems raised. With sensitivity, Pinkett deals with a diverse range of topics relating to boys’ mental health including: Anger Self-harm and suicide LGBTQ+ masculinity Body image Friendships Pornography This is an essential read for teachers and school leaders who want to ensure they are improving the mental health of boys in their schools, challenging toxic behaviours, and equipping the current generation of boys to become happy, healthy, emotionally articulate men.

Author : Drew Dalton,Angela Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031310461

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Gender, Sexuality and the UN's SDGs by Drew Dalton,Angela Smith Pdf

Against the backdrop of Covid-19, this edited volume will utilize a gendered lens to explore the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a clear focus on challenging the omission of sexuality in relation to the SDGs as well as analyzing the ways in which the SDGs are also equally relevant for Western countries. While acknowledging the importance of these goals, contributors unpack the exclusion of marginalized genders and sexualities as well as how popular media and social media contribute to the wider understanding of issues of gender and sexuality and the SDGs. This volume also dispels assumptions about the irrelevance of SDGs to countries in the West, with a particular focus on the UK. Chapters examine a variety of topics including: HIV/AIDS, sex work, global migration, climate change and environmental sustainability, poverty, education, and sexual harassment. This collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students across Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Education, Development Studies and Sustainability Studies.

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317588375

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Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks Pdf

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317588344

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Feminist Theory by bell hooks Pdf

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.

Author : Kate O'Beirne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018731601

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Women who Make the World Worse by Kate O'Beirne Pdf

A top conservative writer takes on America's leading feminists, confronting them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.

Author : Liz Plank
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250196255

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For the Love of Men by Liz Plank Pdf

A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved. In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don’t cry and dolls are for girls (a newer phenomenon than you might realize—gendered toys came back in vogue as recently as the 80s). They learn they must hide their feelings and anxieties, that their masculinity must constantly be proven. They must be the breadwinners, they must be the romantic pursuers. This hasn’t been good for the culture at large: 99% of school shooters are male; men in fraternities are 300% (!) more likely to commit rape; a woman serving in uniform has a higher likelihood of being assaulted by a fellow soldier than to be killed by enemy fire. In For the Love of Men, Liz offers a smart, insightful, and deeply-researched guide for what we're all going to do about toxic masculinity. For both women looking to guide the men in their lives and men who want to do better and just don’t know how, For the Love of Men will lead the conversation on men's issues in a society where so much is changing, but gender roles have remained strangely stagnant. What are we going to do about men? Liz Plank has the answer. And it has the possibility to change the world for men and women alike.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486115542

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

In an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.

Author : Matt Pinkett,Mark Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351163705

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Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools by Matt Pinkett,Mark Roberts Pdf

There is a significant problem in our schools: too many boys are struggling. The list of things to concern teachers is long. Disappointing academic results, a lack of interest in studying, higher exclusion rates, increasing mental health issues, sexist attitudes, an inability to express emotions.... Traditional ideas about masculinity are having a negative impact, not only on males, but females too. In this ground-breaking book, Matt Pinkett and Mark Roberts argue that schools must rethink their efforts to get boys back on track. Boys Don’t Try? examines the research around key topics such as anxiety and achievement, behaviour and bullying, schoolwork and self-esteem. It encourages the reader to reflect on how they define masculinity and consider what we want for boys in our schools. Offering practical quick wins, as well as long-term strategies to help boys become happier and achieve greater academic success, the book: offers ways to avoid problematic behaviour by boys and tips to help teachers address poor behaviour when it happens highlights key areas of pastoral care that need to be recognised by schools exposes how popular approaches to "engaging" boys are actually misguided and damaging details how issues like disadvantage, relationships, violence, peer pressure, and pornography affect boys’ perceptions of masculinity and how teachers can challenge these. With an easy-to-navigate three-part structure for each chapter, setting out the stories, key research, and practical solutions, this is essential reading for all classroom teachers and school leaders who are keen to ensure male students enjoy the same success as girls.

Author : Combahee River Collective
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : African American women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001980726

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The Combahee River Collective Statement by Combahee River Collective Pdf

Author : Johnson
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131711013

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The Gender Knot by Johnson Pdf

Author : Madeleine M. Kunin
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9781603582919

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The New Feminist Agenda by Madeleine M. Kunin Pdf

Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought they would be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Surely there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law students. They have entered the workforce in record numbers, making the two wage earner family the norm. But combining a career and family turned out to be more complicated than expected. While women changed, social structures surrounding work and family remained static. Affordable and high quality child care, paid family leave, and equal pay for equal work remain elusive for the vast majority of working women. In fact, the nation has fallen far behind other parts of the world on the gender equity front. We lag behind more than seventy countries when it comes to the percentage of women holding elected federal offices. Only 17 percent of corporate boards include women members. And just 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies are led by women. It is time, says the author, to change all that. Looking back over five decades of advocacy, she analyzes where progress stalled, looks at the successes of other countries, and charts the course for the next feminist revolution, one that mobilizes women, and men, to call for the kind of government and workplace policies that can improve the lives of women and strengthen their families.

Author : Penny A. Weiss,Megan Brueske
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479837304

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Feminist Manifestos by Penny A. Weiss,Megan Brueske Pdf

This book is a collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings in over 50 countries over the course of three centuries. The manifestos are shown to contain feminist theory and recommend actions for change, and also to expand our very conceptions of feminist thought and activism. Covering issues from political participation, education, religion and work to reproduction, violence, racism and environmentalism, the manifestos challenge definitions of gender and feminist movements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Socialism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013793083

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Socialist Affairs and Women & Politics by Anonim Pdf