The Early Childhood Educator: Critical Conversations in Feminist Theory

Cover\nContents\nSeries Editors’ Foreword\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction Brooke Richardson and Rachel Langford\n1 Reflections on Poststructural Feminisms: Supporting Multiple Performances of Teacher Identities Kylie Smith\n2 Kristevan Early Childhood Teacher: Poststructural Feminist Identities in Australia and New Zealand Sonja Arndt and Marek Tesar\n3 Labouring Relations and the Early Childhood Educator: The Return to Materialism Jan Newberry\n4 Reclaiming Early Childhood Educator(s) as Early Childhood Educator(s) through Feminist Ethics of Care Melinda Bruce and Alana Powell\nCommentary 1 Rachel Langford and Brooke Richardson\n5 Waves upon Waves: Highlighting the Invisibility of the Early Childhood Workforce through Conversations with Fourth Wave, Black and Postcolonial Feminisms Flora Harmon, Erica Ritter and Radhika Viruru\n6 Womanist Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care: Educators’ Nourishment of Mind-Body-Spirit Relations Nnenna Odim, Kia S. Rideaux and Michelle Salazar Pérez\n7 Decolonizing Feminisms: Provocations for Early Childhood Educators in Aotearoa/New Zealand Jenny Ritchie\nCommentary 2 Brooke Richardson and Rachel Langford\n8 Queer Bodies in Early Childhood: Gender and Sexuality Disruption(s) and Impure Feminisms to ‘Get Us Free’ Janice Kroeger\n9 Posthuman Possibilities for the Early Childhood Educator Meagan Montpetit\n10 Early Childhood Pedagogues, Thresholds and the Potentialities of Feminisms and New Materialism Gunilla Dahlberg and Ann Merete Otterstad\n11 Femme-inist Approaches to Early Childhood Education and Care: Cultivating Pedagogies of Care via Femme Theory Adam W.J. Davies and Rhea Ashley Hoskin\nCommentary 3 Rachel Langford and Brooke Richardson\nConcluding Remarks Rachel Langford and Brooke Richardson\nIndex