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Doing racialized masculinities in Finnish schools: subjectivation and de/humanization
This paper focuses on Judith Butler’s theorisation of the performative subject and contemporary critiques to consider its relevance to the doing of...
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Upwardly Mobile Working-Class Masculinities
To address the identity and equity issues informing the First-in-Family Males Project, this chapter recounts a short history of working-class...
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Emotions and Resha** Masculinities
Education is a process operating through emotions and requires both male and female teachers to engage in ‘emotion work’. This chapter outlines the...
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Masculinities and Non-human Bodies
The world around us is understood through language. Yet, language alone cannot fully explain reality. Recently, the works of new materialists or...
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Masculinities and Teaching in Primary Schools Exploring the Lives of Irish Male Teachers
This book provides a platform for male teachers to share how their professional and personal identities are enacted in the classroom. It draws on a...
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“I come from a poor family”: deciphering how working-class young men aspire to and experience their journeys in STEM higher education
Working-class young men are often pathologised for their perceived lack of white-collar career aspirations. Historically, and in our present context,...
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The curriculum of privilege: elite private boys’ school alumni’s engagements with gender justice
Scholars in critical masculinities studies argue that we need men involved and engaged in gender equity movements for gender justice to be realised....
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Introduction
It is difficult to pinpoint exactly where to begin a book on masculinities, particularly as the question of masculinities encompasses biology,...
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Conclusion
This chapter offers five recommendations for future explorations of masculinities in primary schools. The recommendations presented in this chapter...
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Motivated Men: First-in-Family Male Students
While first-in-family women’s experience of attending university has been examined in a growing body of literature, there has been little attention...
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Young Black Street Masculinities Vulnerability, Knife-Carrying and Survival on a Disadvantaged Housing Estate
This book describes how young Black men on a disadvantaged housing estate in London navigate the estate’s expectations for their behaviour as they...
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Rule 4–Empowered groups have to be confident in their power to give some away
The political right and left are filled with brittle masculinities, lashing out at women, cutting away their power, collaborations and conversation....
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‘Double Consciousness’: Ahmed’s Story
This chapter centres the story of Ahmed. Ahmed’s narrative presents an account of multiple identities and how his everyday interactions influence how...
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The Australian Higher Education Context
The focus of this chapter is the Australian higher education context and the impact of the widening participation agenda. The Australian education...
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‘Girls do this, guys do that’: how first-in-family students negotiate working-class gendered subjectivities during a time of social change
Despite efforts to foster a more equitable gender representation, Australia's higher education sector and workforce continue to be highly segregated....
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At the Intersection of Gender, Film Studies and Rhetoric: Facilitating Deep Learning Through Threshold Concepts in the ICLHE Classroom
This chapter evidences how deep learning occurs through the identification of threshold concepts in the Film Studies and Rhetoric classroom. As...
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Self-Made Men Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-Family Males
This book explores how boys from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds disengage from their education, and are resultantly severely underrepresented...
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Theorizing Social Mobility and the First-in-Family Experience
The focus of this chapter is the role of social class in social mobility. It draws on conceptual work—specifically in regard to pathologization and...