Gender Un/Bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
	Figures
	Table
List of contributors
Introduction: Routes, tools and coalitions for un/binding gender
	Potential routes
	References
Chapter 1: The future is fungal?: Unboxing gender and sexuality in the “lower plants” collections
	Introduction
	Fungi and the “lower plants” collection at the National Museum Wales
	The future is fungal?
	Methodology
	Expanding taxonomies
	Silencing gestures of schools
	Fungi as affirmative figures
	Hidden networks
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 2: Transmogrifying blocks: Endarkening gender in nursery encounters
	Introduction
	More-than-human re-orientation
	The single episteme of Man
	Endarkenment as a mode of refusal of Man
	Encountering solidity and fixity
	Refusing “hard bodies”
	Endarkening gender in block play
	Leaping into the dark: Futurity dreamt multiply
	Note
	References
Chapter 3: Messy matters: Disturbing the forces of constraining masculinities with/in creative praxis
	Introduction
	Mapping histories and seeking routes towards boyhoods unbound
	Friendship Workshops and the tales of things gone awry
	Coming to … a wall
	A torn puzzle
	“There’s an AK-47 there”
	Disturbing bound boyhoods through creative praxis
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Transmaterial walking with student video dartaphact: A diffractive encounter with gender matterings of school spaces
	Introduction
	Affective filmmaking as inquiry
	Diffraction as methodology
	Walking with iPads
	Transmaterial walking with student video dartaphacts
	Making the short film Balance
	Balance and transmaterial walking: An encounter in three movements
		Walking-with-in/out gender boundaries 00:00–00:14
		Running-rupturing gender boundaries 00:15–00:35
		Resisting and becoming, expanding gender boundaries 00:35–00:58
	Matterings and becomings …
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: “Oh, my gosh! Everybody just chill a little bit!”: Unbinding gender justice in the senior Literature classroom
	A postfeminist cultural context?
	Methodology
	Applying feminist literary theory in the literature classroom
	Phoebe
	Navigating the complexities of moments of practice
	Oh, my gosh! Everybody just chill a little bit!
	References
Chapter 6: Nine Hauntings, or “colonisation really was a good thing”: A critical Indigiqueercrip retrospective on colonial gender in the New Zealand schooling system
	Preamble
	Addendum
	References
Chapter 7: “Not just a tick on a form”: Working towards gender justice in secondary schools
	Introduction
	Gender justice and gender equity
	Policies and practices for gender justice
		Policymaker: “Creating the community we want to live in”
		Student: “I could actually breathe”
		Teacher: “We’ve got a student here at the moment”
		Teacher: “I don’t care about gender”
		Teacher: “They could be themselves”
		Ex-leaver: “like a kick in the face”
		Students: “We were going to teach the teachers”
		Principal: “How do you make a decision?”
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Underneath the black feathers: Creatively unboXing the more-than of gender identity
	An opening …
	UnboXing RSE with creative agendas
	Diversity underneath
	Cwyir monsters
	Of frogs and feathers
	Bob and Weave
	Open ending: educating gender with cwyir response-ability
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: “We’re so outside normal, we’ve become normal”: Examining nuances of the visibility continuum for trans parents
	Methodology
	The visibility continuum
	Participant experiences of visibility/intelligibility in sharing with school personnel
	Hypervisibility inside the school gate (Sam and Mia)
	Chosen and unwanted invisibility (Sam and Mia; Timothy)
	References
Chapter 10: Constructing Tunay na Lalaki/True Manhood as Elite Manhood through Philippine Universities
	Constructing Tunay na Lalaki/True Manhood as Elite Manhood in Philippine Universities
	Tunay na Lalaki: Concepts and context
		Hegemonic masculinity
		Universities and coloniality
		Sikolohiyang Pilipino and Tunay na Lalaki
	Manhood and Feminist Method/ology
	University Beta: Loob (Inner Self), Labas (Outer Self/World), and Legacy
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 11: Un/binding the ruins of Academia: Tales from compostings (with) gender and other ruinous concepts
	Introduction
	Sketching (borderland) field-rooms
	Ruinous concepts/ruinous Academia
	Classroom logics and (weathered) field-room relations
	Intercorporeal agencies, alliances and encounters
	In some other words of walking and wondering – collecting stuff for the carrier bags
	Notes
	References
Chapter 12: HERE THERE AGAIN: Sexism’s everyday spaces within Australian universities
	Introduction
	Non-performativity and slow methodology
		Non-performativity
		Slow and choreographic thinking
	Creative moving interviews
	What the moving interview does
	HERE THERE AGAIN
		Encountering the book
		Encountering the map
		What the artwork does
	Alternative literacies of everyday sexisms
	Notes
	References
Chapter 13: The idiot box: Alternative world-making pedagogies in Pinky Malinky’s unserious content
	Introduction
		A camp method
	The unimaginable world of Pinky Malinky
	Unserious content
		Mr. Dog
		Three dads, One wiener
		Silly as resource
	Wiener-boi realness
		The queer art of a mistake
		There’s a hair on this hotdog
	The burden as resource, not a conclusion
		Unburdening research
	Notes
	References
Chapter 14: Rural girls and small acts of resistance: Friendship, identities, futures
	Introduction
	Zeinab – resisting the constraints of a small town: determination, personal motivation, leaving for the outside world
		Nettleton’s Drop to Cypress Pines (by Zeinab – Writing camp – 2016)
		This place (by Zeinab – Writing for exams – 2019)
	Interstice: The promenade
		Suzanne – resisting conventions of learning: vitality, talking back to stereotypes, cake for science
		Postcard: Fortune cookies (by Suzanne – in-school writing workshop – 2016)
		Flowers, cookies, ants (by Suzanne – Writing camp – 2016)
	Interstice: leaving/not leaving
		Alice – resisting constraints of self: affects of leaving, getting somewhere, her heart beats differently
		Her heart beats differently (by Alice – writing camp – 2016)
	Interstice: writing together … or not
		Waiting for better days (by Rose & Alice – class activity, first draft, extract – 2015)
		Rose – resisting school itself: student voices, staying home, leaving quietly
		My home (by Rose – in-school writing workshop – 2016)
	References
Chapter 15: Gender as immanence; hauntings, polyphonic subjectivity and resistance in education
	Returning to patriarchy
	The Art classroom
	Patriarchy diffracted: Matter
	Classrooms are milieu
	Rupture
	Gender rituals and polyphonic subjectivity
	Rethinking gender – the hope of resistance
	References
Chapter 16: The gift of gender inheritance – a shared response-ability
	A Prelude
	Introduction
	The coloniality of gender as (intergenerational) inheritance
	Intra-generational spectres and dis/continuity
	The gift of un/learning together-apart
	In/conclusions
	References
Chapter 17: Mana Tamaiti: Un/binding gender, sexuality and reproductive autonomy with Mātauranga Māori and intergenerational dialogue
	Introduction
	The weaving of pedagogy
		Key considerations
		Mana Tamaiti
	Indigenising new spaces
	Intergenerational dialogue and storytelling
		Mātauranga Māori and the construction of curricula
	Constructing discursive ties between worldviews
	Challenging unquestioned norms
	Becoming Sexual Beings
		Within the rangatahi kūaha
		Puta ki te Wheiao i te Ao Mārama
		Mātauranga Wāhine
		Mātauranga tāne
		Pūrākau and mahi toi
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 18: Un/binding gender in preschool: Gender expansion work in early years education
	Introduction
	The research
	Explaining nonbinary
	Pronouns
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 19: Renegotiating the “Asian woman” in education: Three lives
	Narrative 1: Leanne
	Narrative 2: Chien
	Narrative 3: Scarlet
	Critical reflections
	References
Chapter 20: Slippery solidarity: Feminists researching about gender justice with elite boys’ school alumni
	Preamble: Skin crawling and panic rising
	Introduction and background
	Toward an ethics of mutuality: Feminists researching gender issues with men
		Vignette 1: Vitality
		Vignette 2: Unease
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
	References
Chapter 21: Epistemic injustice as a framework for exploring young women’s experiences of the incarceration/education nexus
	Introduction
	Epistemic injustice: A theoretical framework
	Testimonial injustice
	Hermeneutical injustice
	Critiquing the theory: Willful hermeneutical ignorance
	Extending the theory: Contributory injustice
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 22: Exploring possibilities for gender to become otherwise: What do child-snail relations make possible?
	Introduction
	Unbounding Mauni
	Troubled Contact Zone
	Snail superpowers
	Snail becoming human
	Snail Fiction – So Far
	References
Index