Weaving together her most influential writings of the 1990s, Bronwyn Davies offers a unique
engagement with poststructuralism that defies the boundaries between theory and …

Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting
an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first …

In this paper we enter into the debate about the place of poststructuralist theorising and its
relation to educational and psychological practices. We argue against a definition of …

This article focuses on the social interactions of several boys aged 3-5 years in the block
area of a preschool classroom in a childcare setting. Using transcripts of video segments …

In this paper, we analyse the links between subjectivities as they are constructed through the
intersecting discourses of gender and literacy, and we situate this analysis in the context of …

This article addresses the question of how to interpret the relation between the production of
subjectivity and the effects of different forms of schooling. Two kinds of problem are …

What is a child? How is the concept of childhood defined? This book aims to explore these
perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and …

DISCIPLINE AND LEARN discipline, v.[aF discipliner (12th c. in Hatz.–Darm.) or med. L.
disciplinare, f. L. disciplina DISCIPLINE sb.] a. trans. To subject to discipline; in earlier use …

Norms of embodied behaviour for males and females, as promoted in mainstream Western
public arenas of popular culture and the everyday, continue to work, overtly and covertly, as …

To operationalize a feminist poststructuralist approach necessitates research of a close‐up
nature in order to track shifting subject positions through a range of social contexts and to …