Troubling Gender in Education

Jo-Anne Dillabough is a Reader at the University of Cambridge, UK, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is co-editor of Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship and Globalisation, Education and Social Change. Her forthcoming co-authored book is entitled Lost Youth in the Global City (with J. Kennelly, 2009).Julie McLeod is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. She is co-editor (with Andrea Allard) of Learning from the Margins: Young Women, Education and Social Exclusion; and co-author (with Lyn Yates) of Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling and Social Change; and (with Rachel Thomson) of Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches.Martin Mills is a Professor in the School of Education, The University of Queensland, and Visiting Professor at Roehampton University, London. He is the editor of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. He is co-author of Teachers and Schooling: Making a Difference (with Deb Hayes, Pam Christie & Bob Lingard) and Teaching Boys (with Amanda Keddie).

• 1. In Search of Allies and Others: 'Troubling' Gender and Education Jo-Anne Dillabough, Julie McLeod and Martin Mills 2. ‘The Self-Made Self’: analysing the potential contribution to the field of gender and education of theories that disembed selfhood Becky Francis and Christine Skelton 3. Global femininities: Consumption, culture and the significance of place Mary Jane Kehily and Anoop Nayak 4. (Re)imagining the global, rethinking gender in education Kellie Burns 5. Machinic assemblages: Women, art education and space Maria Tamboukou 6. When the Familiar is Strange: Encountering the Cultural Politics of Hawaii in the College Classroom Hannah M. Tavares 7. Sex in the lesbian teacher's closet: the hybrid proliferation of queers in school Sheila L. Cavanagh 8. Girls hit! Constructing and negotiating violent African femininities in a working-class primary school Deevia Bhana 9. The politics of veiling, gender and the Muslim subject: On the limits and possibilities of anti-racist education in the aftermath of September 11 Wayne Martino and Goli M. Rezai-Rashti