More than a class act? Dilemmas in researching elite school girls’ feminist politics
Charles, C; Allan, A
Date: 28 November 2020
Journal
Feminist Theory: an international interdisciplinary journal
Publisher
SAGE Publications
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Abstract
Feminist scholars have long been concerned with privileged women’s activism and engagement with
feminist politics and how acts of resistance from privileged subjects might best be understood. In the
current moment we are seeing a reinvigoration of interest in feminist activism particularly from young
women, but not necessarily ...
Feminist scholars have long been concerned with privileged women’s activism and engagement with
feminist politics and how acts of resistance from privileged subjects might best be understood. In the
current moment we are seeing a reinvigoration of interest in feminist activism particularly from young
women, but not necessarily focusing on young women who are positioned as privileged. At the same
time, there is attention in the sociology of elite schooling, to the question of social justice politics in
privileged spaces. In this paper we contribute to both these scholarly conversations by reporting on the
feminist activism of three young women attending an elite school in Australia. We argue that these
young women’s activism/feminist politics needs to be understood as a complex entanglement of
resistance and reproduction with regard to gender, race and class, and that drawing on recent
theorisations influenced by post-humanism in feminist educational research produces fresh insights into
researching gender/race/class reproduction by young women in elite educational settings.
School of Education
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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