Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School

Victoria Rawlings is Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK. She has taught in and researched the lived experiences of young people in both Australia and the UK, with a specific focus on how expectations of gender and sexuality influence their behaviours and social outcomes.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Unpacking and Re-framing 'Bullying'.- Chapter 3. Gender Regulation.- Chapter 4. Head Teacher and Principal Realities.- Chapter 5. Student Realities.- Chapter 6. 'Kick a Slut in the Head Day'.- Chapter 7. Recognising Power, Privilege and Context.

“Rawlings does an exceptional job at dissuading the reader from traditional bullying theories by offering more contemporary theories … .  offering transcripts of student discourse along with teacher/principal discourse gives the reader an interesting look into the similarities that occur at both levels in a school system. … Rawlings leaves her audience with a helpful and empirically backed start in which schools may begin to see a meaningful impact and inclusive influence on all areas and demographics affected by bullying.” (Jacob Christenson, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol. 46, 2017)