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‘Being yourself’: everyday ways of doing and being gender in a ‘rights respecting’ primary school

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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:28 authored by Rebecca WebbRebecca Webb
This paper engages with some everyday ways of doing and being gender which proceed from a dominant liberal rights policy and practice discourse within one English ‘rights-respecting’ primary school in England. Drawing on three ethnographic vignettes of data from different spaces within the school, it utilises a Butlerian analytic to interrogate the kinds of subjects that children are entitled and obliged to be as they take up different subject positions proposed to them in the school. The paper engages with this empirical data, to foster and ignite critical sensibilities, especially as these relate to ‘taken-for-granted’ discourses of children’s rights which presume the participation of all children regardless of their differently gendered subjectivities. This analysis puts in question the universal, normative and essentialising effects of the category of the rights-respecting child as always unproblematic and forever productive.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Gender and Education

ISSN

0954-0253

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

2

Volume

31

Page range

258-273

Department affiliated with

  • Education Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-03-15

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-10-16

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-03-15

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