Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: gender and educational theory 1.gender theory and research in education: modernist traditions and emerging contemporary themes 2. Troubling boys and disturbing discourses on masculinity and schooling: a feminist exploration of current debates and interventions concerning boys in school 3. Education and gender identity: seeking frameworks of understanding part 2: difference and power 4. Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory 5. Identity, abjection and otherness: creating the self, creating difference 6. Masculine domination: permanence and change 7. The big picture: masculinities in recent world history part 3: identity work 8. `spice girls', nice girls, girlies and tomboys: gender discourses, girls' cultures and femininities in the primary classroom 9. `lads and laughter': humour and the production of heterosexual hierarchies 10. Gender-blind racism in the experience of schooling and identity formation part 4: knowledge and pedagogy 11. Boys don't write romance: the construction of knowledge and social gender identities in english classrooms 12. Beyond the birds and the bees: constituting a discourse of erotics in sexuality education 13. Power, bodies and identity: how different forms of physical education construct varying masculinities and femininities in secondary schools 14. Masculinity, violence and schooling: challenging 'poisonous pedagogies' part 5: reflexivity and risk 15. Working out intimacy: young people and friendship in an age of reflexivity 16. Uneasy hybrid: psychosocial aspects of becoming educationally successful for working-class young women project 4:21 - transitions to womanhood 17. Nomadic subjects: young black women in britain part 6: gender and citizenship 18. Citizenship education and gender 19. Citizenship and the self made girl