a selection of ideas
Curriculum and Gender
Curriculum is always gendered…so what?
Difficult Knowledge & Sexual Violence Prevention Curricula
Can curricular materials charged with violence in educational practices guarantee safety?
Girls Minus Boys: Challenging Heteronormativity
The assumptions of “the absent boys” explanation combats what many gender-segregated girls’ schools hope to accomplish—girls as powerful agents of their lives, their bodies, and their futures.
Girls, Single-sex Schools, and Postfeminist Fantasies
What’s so feminist about “having it all”?
Pink Brains? Yes, Neurosexism
Increasingly neuroscience is invoked to tell us the nature of human beings and their cognitive capacities. Schools rely heavily on that science, and it informs our understandings of the education of girls.