Debbie Epstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3701400 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Debbie Epstein |
| NOMBRES | Debbie |
| APELLIDO | Epstein |
| FIRMA | EPSTEIN D |
| AFILIACIONES | Cardiff University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 397 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Covid-19 conjuncture
The Covid-19 pandemic is intensifying existing problems of economic asymmetry, and other injustices, between and within countries and regions around the world. It is thus imperative that sociological studies of education document its socio-cultural implications in different locations and on different scales. It is equally imperative that such studies have a historical perspective that asks what pre-existing social problems have been intensified a…
Class Choreographies
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excel
Sex Education
The term “sex education” covers a multitude of approaches, meanings, and pedagogical strategies. It is highly contextual, with localized cultures and understandings making significant differences to both the purposes and the practices involved. It is also often highly politicized. Sex education in both the United Kingdom and United States has its origins in what Frank Mort, among others, termed the “medico‐moral” discourses of the second half of …
Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies
PART 1: THEORY AND POLITICS Conceptualising Gender D.Richardson Feminist Theory S.Hines Feminism, Social Movements and the Gendering of Politics N. Charles Men, Masculinities and Feminism V.Robinson PART 2: BODIES/IDENTITIES Gendered Bodies: Gendered Lives K.Woodward Racing the Feminist Agenda: Exploring the Intersections Between Race, Ethnicity and Gender K.Reed Sexuality Y.Taylor PART 3: INSTITUTIONS Families, Domesticity and Intimacy S.Jackson…
Race-ing class ladies
This paper draws on fieldwork done in Greystone School in South Africa, a single sex girls' school. I explore how the legacy of coloniser and colonised is reconfigured through the history of the school and the particular racialised politics of South Africa, where race and class have always been imbricated in differently nuanced ways before, during and after apartheid. The young women have, for the most part, been produced and produced themselves …
Thinking education feminisms
Diana Leonard, who died aged 68 on 27 November 2010, was a feminist, sociologist and political activist. A feisty feminist academic and activist, she was a founder member of the editorial board of
Multi-sited global ethnography and travel
This paper joins a barely begun conversation about multi-sited and global ethnography in educational research; a conversation that is likely to intensify along with growing interest in the links between education, globalisation, internationalisation and transnationalism. Drawing on an ongoing multi-sited global ethnography of elite schools and globalisation, this paper explores the role of travel in multi-sited global ethnography and offers a fem…
Approaching Southern theory
This article draws on the five other papers from South Africa in this issue of Gender and Education to consider how Southern theory has been developed and is developing in relation to gender and education in South Africa. We argue that Southern theory is not an on-the-shelf solution to global geopolitical inequalities but a work in process that is important both for the global South and to simultaneously dethrone and enrich Northern, mainstream t…
Doubts, dilemmas and decisions
This article discusses the tension between 'do no harm' on the one hand and the integrity of the research process and its intended goals on the other. We discuss a set of choices confronted in the process of researching gender and sexuality in the context of HIV in South African schools. One dilemma was what to do with information that suggested that an adjunct member of the research team was undermining the gender equality goals of the project a…
A Flat Earth Society? Imagining Academic Freedom
This paper starts from the standpoint that academic freedom is a necessary precondition to sociological imagination that challenges and defies the status quo. In the introduction, we consider the legacy of sociology as praxis - intended not merely to understand, but to change the world. We then move on to conceptualise academic freedom as requiring formal, infrastructural and psychic freedoms. We then chart the genealogy of universities from acad…
Imagining the mathematician
This paper makes both a critical analysis of some popular cultural texts about mathematics and mathematicians, and explores the ways in which young people deploy the discourses produced in these texts. We argue that there are particular (and sometimes contradictory) meanings and discourses about mathematics that circulate in popular culture, that young people use these as resources in identity making as (non-)mathematicians, negotiating their mea…
Jovens produzindo identidades sexuais
Nesse artigo analisamos a formação das identidades sexuais de jovens, a partir de uma série de exemplos retirados de trabalhos de campo, no decorrer de vários anos e em diferentes projetos de pesquisa. Argumentamos que os jovens se produzem como atores generificados e sexualizados em e por meio de certas relações centrais. Seus contextos mais imediatos são suas próprias culturas sexuais, formadas em relação a espaços institucionais como escolas, …
Accounting for Ethos or Programmes for Conduct? The Brave New World of Research Ethics Committees
This paper examines the operation of power and its consequences arising from the growth of new ethical bureaucracies in universities. We use the UK as a case study to illustrate more general points about the globalised nature and impact of such bureaucratisation. Our focus is on the social sciences as this is where, we argue, the impact is likely to be most marked. The paper is organised in five sections. The first introduces our concerns. Sectio…
The Face of Ruin
The Michael Jackson trial represented a spectacular and, indeed, macabre event on a global scale. The trial keyed into a number of contemporaneous cultural anxieties and fascinations. These include: a seemingly inexhaustible popular craving for celebrity, excess and scandal; the totalising proliferation of surveillance culture; the “corruption” of jurisprudence itself through the televisualisation of criminal trials (most notably that of OJ Simps…
I don’t want to catch it’. Boys, girls and sexualities in an HIV/Aids environment
This paper examines young South African school children’s understanding of HIV/AIDS. Based on ethnographic work in two schools in Greater Durban, it explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on the ways in which gender and sexuality are articulated against the backdrop of race and class specific contexts. The first part of the paper examines the children’s discourses of sex, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. We show that young children’s meanings of sex, sexuality a…
Past papers, future thinking
School violence, school differences and school discourses
This article highlights one strand of a study which investigated the concept of the violence‐resilient school. In six inner‐city secondary schools, data on violent incidents in school and violent crime in the neighbourhood were gathered, and compared with school practices to minimise violence, accessed through interviews. Some degree of association between the patterns of behaviour and school practices was found: schools with a wider range of wel…
Democratising the research imagination
This paper problematises globalisation and the democratisation of the research imagination, highlighting the potentials for harm and good. We do so, first, by exploring two philosophical/epistemological issues: the definition of ‘knowledge’ and the role of ‘research’ in knowledge creation. The paper then considers some of possible consequences of the democratisation of knowledge by examining the case of HIV/AIDS in sub‐Saharan Africa and using it…
Managing the research imagination? Globalisation and research in higher education
This paper argues that, during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, universities have been captured by neo-liberal regimes of truth. We suggest that this may inhibit the 'research imagination' within universities and, consequently, their role in the democratisation of knowledge. We consider the role of capital in the globalisation of higher education, and the resulting global circulation of people and knowledge. We then examine ho…
Standardising Sexuality
In this paper, we argue that education and the possibility of becoming educated are in tension with sexuality in schools and that, consequently, students tend either to suppress all kinds of knowledges—embodied and otherwise—that are neither welcome nor recognised within the formal contexts of schooling or debar themselves from success in terms of educational achievement. Students embody identities both as learners and as sexual subjects. Discour…
‘Are you a girl or are you a teacher?’ The ‘Least Adult’ Role in Research about Gender and Sexuality in a Primary School
During 1995-96, I did a small-scale piece of ethnography in a Year 5 class of a London primary school (Edenfield School)2 to investigate the gendered cultures of the children and how questions around sexuality were involved in the ways gendered identities were put in place. The substantive findings of the project have been published elsewhere (Epstein, 1997; Epstein and Johnson, 1998, especially Chapters 5 and 6) so the purpose of this paper is t…
Life in the Bleep-Cycle
American1 talk television has cut a significant swathe across the broadcasting landscape. As a genre it is one of the most extensively syndicated and franchised media forms world-wide. American talk shows have long been pre-eminent not only in the massive export of multiple products, but also as genre-setting influences in the relatively recent proliferation of home-grown American-style talk shows in other countries. Moreover, American talk show …
Innocence and Experience
The school setting
ROBERT MORRELL, RELEBOHILE MOLETSANE, QUAIRRAISHA ABDOOL KARIM, DEBBIE EPSTEIN and ELAINE UNTERHALTER argue school-based HIV interventions offer an opportunity to transform gender, in schools and beyond
Re-Theorising Friendship in Educational Settings
(2002). Re-Theorising Friendship in Educational Settings. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 149-151
Boyz' Own Stories
In this paper I will draw on ethnographic work to argue that schools are highly sexualised sites, within which struggles around sexuality are pervasive, of consuming interest and, at the same time, taboo. I will suggest that struggles around sexuality are intimately connected with struggles around gender, and that the explicit homophobia and implicit heterosexism found within schools derives from and feeds macho and misogynistic versions of mascu…
Challenging lesbian and gay inequalities in education
Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education is an essential addition to the library of anyone concerned about developing education for social justice and about challenging inequalities in society. Through a series of historically-located articles ranging from personal stories, through examples of 'good practice', to theoretical analysis of the interweaving of heterosexism, sexism and racism, the book traces the ways in which these oppre…
Managing the research imagination? Globalisation and research in higher education
This paper argues that, during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, universities have been captured by neo-liberal regimes of truth. We suggest that this may inhibit the 'research imagination' within universities and, consequently, their role in the democratisation of knowledge. We consider the role of capital in the globalisation of higher education, and the resulting global circulation of people and knowledge. We then examine ho…
Sexualities and Education
Twice Told Tales
In this article we explore the narratives and discursive frameworks which were deployed in the second Age of Consent debate in the British House of Commons in order to identify shifts, continuities and emergent elements in sexual politics in the late 1990s. In the first section we will be looking at questions of theory and method. Here we will draw, particularly, on ideas of narrative and discourse, exploring their relation to each other and how …
Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
This article is based on the ethnographic study of children's play at break time in two contrasting primary schools in north London. Play in the two schools was differently gendered, at least partly because of the different organization of the playground. The article will argue that children will use the means available to them to construct gender in their playgrounds and that this will frequently involve the reproduction of hegemonic cultural id…
Approaching Southern theory
This article draws on the five other papers from South Africa in this issue of Gender and Education to consider how Southern theory has been developed and is developing in relation to gender and education in South Africa. We argue that Southern theory is not an on-the-shelf solution to global geopolitical inequalities but a work in process that is important both for the global South and to simultaneously dethrone and enrich Northern, mainstream t…
Cultures of schooling/cultures of sexuality
Paper presented at the 77th Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association held New York (US), 8-12 Apr 1996
A Flat Earth Society? Imagining Academic Freedom
This paper starts from the standpoint that academic freedom is a necessary precondition to sociological imagination that challenges and defies the status quo. In the introduction, we consider the legacy of sociology as praxis - intended not merely to understand, but to change the world. We then move on to conceptualise academic freedom as requiring formal, infrastructural and psychic freedoms. We then chart the genealogy of universities from acad…
Accounting for Ethos or Programmes for Conduct? The Brave New World of Research Ethics Committees
This paper examines the operation of power and its consequences arising from the growth of new ethical bureaucracies in universities. We use the UK as a case study to illustrate more general points about the globalised nature and impact of such bureaucratisation. Our focus is on the social sciences as this is where, we argue, the impact is likely to be most marked. The paper is organised in five sections. The first introduces our concerns. Sectio…
Multi-sited global ethnography and travel
This paper joins a barely begun conversation about multi-sited and global ethnography in educational research; a conversation that is likely to intensify along with growing interest in the links between education, globalisation, internationalisation and transnationalism. Drawing on an ongoing multi-sited global ethnography of elite schools and globalisation, this paper explores the role of travel in multi-sited global ethnography and offers a fem…
Private Girls and Public Worlds
This article draws upon data gathered from a research project entitled 'Children's Relationship Cultures in Years 5 and 6'. The project aims to explore the ways in which primary school age children understand emotional, caring and family relationships. This paper will focus upon the role of friendship in the cultures of girls, aged 9-10, in a primary school classroom. An ethnographic approach is adopted to illustrate the variety of interactions i…
Race-ing class ladies
This paper draws on fieldwork done in Greystone School in South Africa, a single sex girls' school. I explore how the legacy of coloniser and colonised is reconfigured through the history of the school and the particular racialised politics of South Africa, where race and class have always been imbricated in differently nuanced ways before, during and after apartheid. The young women have, for the most part, been produced and produced themselves …
American dreamin’
Defining Accountability in Education
During the 1980s and 1990s we have seen major changes in the education system, many of which have appealed to the notion of ‘accountability’. This paper argues that one of the reasons for the success of these appeals in common sense has been the failure of anti‐racist and other radical educationists to consider issues of accountability. It is suggested that this has made it easier for the right to appropriate the language of accountability, defin…
Introduction
(1996). Introduction: the marketisation of school education: feminist studies and perspectives. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 301-314
Jovens produzindo identidades sexuais
Nesse artigo analisamos a formação das identidades sexuais de jovens, a partir de uma série de exemplos retirados de trabalhos de campo, no decorrer de vários anos e em diferentes projetos de pesquisa. Argumentamos que os jovens se produzem como atores generificados e sexualizados em e por meio de certas relações centrais. Seus contextos mais imediatos são suas próprias culturas sexuais, formadas em relação a espaços institucionais como escolas, …
Too Small to Notice? Constructions of Childhood and Discourses of ‘Race’ in Predominantly White Contexts
This paper is organised around three possible meanings that can be given to the question ‘Too small to notice?’ in relation to racism and anti‐racism in the early years of schooling (up to the age of eight). Firstly, are young children too small to have notice taken of their serious concerns and questions? Secondly, are young children too small to notice and/or engage with racism and difference? And thirdly, is racism too small a problem in predo…
Doubts, dilemmas and decisions
This article discusses the tension between 'do no harm' on the one hand and the integrity of the research process and its intended goals on the other. We discuss a set of choices confronted in the process of researching gender and sexuality in the context of HIV in South African schools. One dilemma was what to do with information that suggested that an adjunct member of the research team was undermining the gender equality goals of the project a…
Imagining the mathematician
This paper makes both a critical analysis of some popular cultural texts about mathematics and mathematicians, and explores the ways in which young people deploy the discourses produced in these texts. We argue that there are particular (and sometimes contradictory) meanings and discourses about mathematics that circulate in popular culture, that young people use these as resources in identity making as (non-)mathematicians, negotiating their mea…
I don’t want to catch it’. Boys, girls and sexualities in an HIV/Aids environment
This paper examines young South African school children’s understanding of HIV/AIDS. Based on ethnographic work in two schools in Greater Durban, it explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on the ways in which gender and sexuality are articulated against the backdrop of race and class specific contexts. The first part of the paper examines the children’s discourses of sex, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. We show that young children’s meanings of sex, sexuality a…
Boys Bonding
This article aims to explore some of the ways in which the cultural meanings and practices of gender, sexuality and relationships intersect with and are reworked in the same-sex friendships of children aged nine to eleven. Using material from an ethnographic study, it focuses on two boys, Ben and Karl, who identified themselves as best friends. The article argues that, while the boys clearly knew, positioned themselves in and deployed heterosexua…
Marked Men
Twelve Steps to Heterosexuality? Common-Sensibilities on the Oprah Winfrey Show
The Covid-19 conjuncture
The Covid-19 pandemic is intensifying existing problems of economic asymmetry, and other injustices, between and within countries and regions around the world. It is thus imperative that sociological studies of education document its socio-cultural implications in different locations and on different scales. It is equally imperative that such studies have a historical perspective that asks what pre-existing social problems have been intensified a…
Too Small to Notice? Constructions of Childhood and Discourses of ‘Race’ in Predominantly White Contexts
This paper is organised around three possible meanings that can be given to the question ‘Too small to notice?’ in relation to racism and anti‐racism in the early years of schooling (up to the age of eight). Firstly, are young children too small to have notice taken of their serious concerns and questions? Secondly, are young children too small to notice and/or engage with racism and difference? And thirdly, is racism too small a problem in predo…
Defining Accountability in Education
During the 1980s and 1990s we have seen major changes in the education system, many of which have appealed to the notion of ‘accountability’. This paper argues that one of the reasons for the success of these appeals in common sense has been the failure of anti‐racist and other radical educationists to consider issues of accountability. It is suggested that this has made it easier for the right to appropriate the language of accountability, defin…
Challenging lesbian and gay inequalities in education
Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education is an essential addition to the library of anyone concerned about developing education for social justice and about challenging inequalities in society. Through a series of historically-located articles ranging from personal stories, through examples of 'good practice', to theoretical analysis of the interweaving of heterosexism, sexism and racism, the book traces the ways in which these oppre…
Twelve Steps to Heterosexuality? Common-Sensibilities on the Oprah Winfrey Show
No fixed abode
(1996). No fixed abode: Feminism in the 1990's. Parallax: Vol. 2, Dissonant Feminisms, pp. 1-6
Corrective Cultures
In this paper I offer a reading of the coverage in the popular press (tabloid and broadsheet) of the Jane Brown/Romeo and Juliet scandal, which hit the headlines in the United Kingdom (and was extensively reported in other Anglophone countries such as New Zealand, Australia and the USA) in January and February 1994. The paper traces the cultural and political contexts of the affair, arguing that the press coverage needs to be understood as part o…
All Het Up
The Oprah Winfrey Show provides an interesting set of contradictions. On the one hand, it appears to challenge common-sense assumptions about relationships, specifically heterosexual relationships (for example, by consistently raising issues of sexual violence within a heterosexual context). Yet, at the same time, Oprah's presentation often works to reinforce precisely the norms she seeks to challenge. Through a close analysis of a selection of p…
"All Het up! Rescuing Heterosexuality on the "Oprah Winfrey Show
Introduction
(1996). Introduction: the marketisation of school education: feminist studies and perspectives. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 301-314
Cultures of schooling/cultures of sexuality
Paper presented at the 77th Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association held New York (US), 8-12 Apr 1996
Boyz' Own Stories
In this paper I will draw on ethnographic work to argue that schools are highly sexualised sites, within which struggles around sexuality are pervasive, of consuming interest and, at the same time, taboo. I will suggest that struggles around sexuality are intimately connected with struggles around gender, and that the explicit homophobia and implicit heterosexism found within schools derives from and feeds macho and misogynistic versions of mascu…
Marked Men
American dreamin’
Sexualities and Education
Twice Told Tales
In this article we explore the narratives and discursive frameworks which were deployed in the second Age of Consent debate in the British House of Commons in order to identify shifts, continuities and emergent elements in sexual politics in the late 1990s. In the first section we will be looking at questions of theory and method. Here we will draw, particularly, on ideas of narrative and discourse, exploring their relation to each other and how …
Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
This article is based on the ethnographic study of children's play at break time in two contrasting primary schools in north London. Play in the two schools was differently gendered, at least partly because of the different organization of the playground. The article will argue that children will use the means available to them to construct gender in their playgrounds and that this will frequently involve the reproduction of hegemonic cultural id…
Disciplining and Punishing Masculinities
This special issue of Men and Masculinities originates from the April 1999 symposium entitled Disciplining and Punishing Masculinities held at the University of Warwick in England. It tackles ways in which boys and young men negotiate learn and are positioned within different versions of masculinity. The areas under discussion are educational whether the formal school or the informally educative football team. The issue is opened with a discussio…
Innocence and Experience
The school setting
ROBERT MORRELL, RELEBOHILE MOLETSANE, QUAIRRAISHA ABDOOL KARIM, DEBBIE EPSTEIN and ELAINE UNTERHALTER argue school-based HIV interventions offer an opportunity to transform gender, in schools and beyond
Re-Theorising Friendship in Educational Settings
(2002). Re-Theorising Friendship in Educational Settings. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 149-151
Private Girls and Public Worlds
This article draws upon data gathered from a research project entitled 'Children's Relationship Cultures in Years 5 and 6'. The project aims to explore the ways in which primary school age children understand emotional, caring and family relationships. This paper will focus upon the role of friendship in the cultures of girls, aged 9-10, in a primary school classroom. An ethnographic approach is adopted to illustrate the variety of interactions i…
Boys Bonding
This article aims to explore some of the ways in which the cultural meanings and practices of gender, sexuality and relationships intersect with and are reworked in the same-sex friendships of children aged nine to eleven. Using material from an ethnographic study, it focuses on two boys, Ben and Karl, who identified themselves as best friends. The article argues that, while the boys clearly knew, positioned themselves in and deployed heterosexua…
‘Are you a girl or are you a teacher?’ The ‘Least Adult’ Role in Research about Gender and Sexuality in a Primary School
During 1995-96, I did a small-scale piece of ethnography in a Year 5 class of a London primary school (Edenfield School)2 to investigate the gendered cultures of the children and how questions around sexuality were involved in the ways gendered identities were put in place. The substantive findings of the project have been published elsewhere (Epstein, 1997; Epstein and Johnson, 1998, especially Chapters 5 and 6) so the purpose of this paper is t…
Life in the Bleep-Cycle
American1 talk television has cut a significant swathe across the broadcasting landscape. As a genre it is one of the most extensively syndicated and franchised media forms world-wide. American talk shows have long been pre-eminent not only in the massive export of multiple products, but also as genre-setting influences in the relatively recent proliferation of home-grown American-style talk shows in other countries. Moreover, American talk show …
Standardising Sexuality
In this paper, we argue that education and the possibility of becoming educated are in tension with sexuality in schools and that, consequently, students tend either to suppress all kinds of knowledges—embodied and otherwise—that are neither welcome nor recognised within the formal contexts of schooling or debar themselves from success in terms of educational achievement. Students embody identities both as learners and as sexual subjects. Discour…
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