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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the processes related to gender construction requires a multi and interdisciplinary approach. Complexity emerges as a category of investigation and an end to be pursued, giving space to a plurality of voices, interpretations, and points of view. With such intellectual curiosity, the volume's authors questioned the inclusion and exclusion of these multiple voices in education. How has teaching on gender made room for this complexity? What views were included? Which ones were overlooked? What have educational models for children been privileged in the imagination? Which histories and stories have accompanied them in acquiring an awareness linked to gender? Through such important questions and many more, the volume highlights the gender changes that took place from mid-eighteen century to today in various contexts relating to formal and informal education through an international comparative perspective. The multiplicity of approaches, methodologies, and perspectives allows us to read and analyze these changes in a composite way, underlining little-known aspects of gender studies in the historical-educational field.
Table of ContentsForeword Elisabetta Serafini List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Maria Lucenti PART 1: School and University 1 Talking about Gender in Teacher Education: Historicizing Educator’s Responses and Their Implications Marie-Hélène Brunet 2 Gender Relations through History Textbooks: An Analysis of German History Textbooks for Girls’ Schools in the 19th Century Timm Gerd Hellmanzik 3 Women in Higher Education in Québec: 50 Years of University Feminism in Quebec – A Testimony Yolande Cohen 4 The Education of Girls in the Schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Morocco: When the Colonizer Is the Co-religionist Christine Chevalier-Caron PART 2: Portrayals of Women and Their Role in Society in Popular Literature 5 Boudica and Evangeline – Female Characters in National Identity: A History of Controversial Representations Maria Lucenti 6 Between Sex Revolt and ‘Relationship Stuff’: Gender Relations in Comics of the 1968 Generation Sylvia Kesper-Biermann 7 Not Just Pippi Longstocking: Girl Protagonists of Female Emancipation in Italy Anna Antoniazzi 8 Gender Stereotypes in French Picture Books Julie Fette Conclusion Maria Lucenti Index
