Feminist authors, researchers, and teachers recall their intellectual efforts in the field in this collection of fifteen essays. Their topics include some leaders in the field, feminist theoretical work in education, memoirs of a researcher into mysteries of gender, a "mother" of feminist sociology of education speaks, examining three-walled rooms, exploring a political and intellectual history, making an impact, a defiant research imagination, the return of the feminist subject in an intellectual autobiography, engaging with feminism and masculinity politics, revisiting The Making of a Man and other texts, boys' education and masculinity, feminist work in Australia, personal reflections on men and women in education, pioneering gender equity in education, feminism and social class, and a conversation with the field. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Leaders in Gender and Education: Intellectual Self-Portraits does just that, showing the history of gender and education through the eyes of 16 of its leaders. By recounting their experiences and scholarly work, they trace the development of feminist and profeminist research on girls, on boys, and on the issues shaping both gender and education—issues like race, sexuality, neoliberalism, globalization, and more. Importantly, the volume has a global focus, including scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. This diversity gives readers a broad sense of the progress of gender scholarship in education around the world.
