E Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 40663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0142-3059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sexisms and gender-washing in Australian academia
This paper offers an analysis of selected survey findings from a mixed methods research project, entitled Understanding and Addressing Everyday Sexisms in Australian Universities. The project is situated within the context of the negative impact of gender-based discrimination upon the higher education sector in Australia and internationally. The findings discussed in this paper relate to quantitative analyses of selected items from a national sur…
Gender-related violence in Australian and UK universities
We analyse interview data from two projects undertaken in Australia and England to explore gender-related violence (GRV) and its impact on university staff. This focus is novel and important as most research on GRV in universities has focused on students, meaning that staff experiences are largely absent. We argue that universities are unsafe spaces for women staff, particularly those in minoritized groups, and in Australia for Aboriginal and Tor…
We are in a very precarious position
This paper draws upon empirical data in order to offer insights to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities in Peshawar City, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The paper also considers the resilience that the community developed during this time. Drawing on Butler's concept of precarity and liveability, we in this article demonstrate how the precarious positionalities of Khawaja Sara and H…
Sexisms and Un/welcome Diversity in Australian Universities
Australian university websites as colonialities of gender
This paper offers analysis of the first phase of a research project, Understanding and Addressing Everyday Sexisms in Australian Universities. This phase involved a critical content analysis of all 39 of Australia’s public university websites, focusing on how they represent gender, absences in relation to gender and the navigability of the websites in relation to gender equity policy. Drawing on Maria Lugones’s colonialities of gender, this paper…
‘I'm broken but I'm alive’
This paper reports on a project conducted between July 2020 and March 2021 that was developed within the context of COVID-19 and explored the ways in which Australian universities responded to the pandemic and the gendered effects of these responses. This paper demonstrates that sexist and gender discriminatory practices were amplified by the pandemic and that the gendered division of labour within higher education was made more apparent. We cont…
Performing feminist research
Presenting research findings outside of the form of a traditional research report requires different modes of making and communicating. This paper offers an account of how The #FEAS Report, a satirical news video, was made to communicate the findings from interviews and a survey as part of the mixed-methods study, Sexism, Higher Education, and COVID-19: The Australian Perspective to a wider public. Three creative tactics for research communicatio…
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan
This paper explores the status of girls’ education in the schools of rural Balochistan in Pakistan, and examines the dimensions of access, enrolment and retention. In order to explore the complexities of this governmental problem, we will propose the concept of postcolonial Islamic governmentality. Drawing on Foucault’s work on the arts of government, with Dean’s (2010 D. Mitchell, ed. 2010. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. Los …
The boy in a dress
This article draws upon theories of gender, nation and haunting in order to examine what we term the spectre of the boy in a dress within two international contexts, Sweden and Australia. These two contexts have been chosen because, on the surface, they appear to be very different and yet as our analysis will reveal there are striking similarities around gender conformity discourse and nation, although they play out differently. We illustrate how…
Between activism and academia
This paper gives an account of a series of three Zoom zine-making workshops run between March and July 2020 that were themed the political, the personal and the practical. A micro-reading of the zines is offered as data that mirror the aims of the workshops, to queer time by slowing down and creating a pause. The process of zine-making as feminist praxis is examined, and the zines themselves are discussed as data that reflect specific moments in …
You’re actually the problem’
In 2016 the world witnessed a consolidation of a western brand of political ‘populist authoritarianism’ that is anti-globalisationalist and creates ‘shared objects of loathing’ in the popular imagination. This article engages with the implications of this affective and masculinist ‘post-truth’ era for higher education and analyses the narratives of teacher educators who teach compulsory classes based on inclusion and diversity. The article uses t…
Someone has to keep shouting
In a recent interview with the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver stated that ‘Food is the most basic issue [...] it’s about health [...] someone has to take responsibility for this. Someone has to keep shouting’. Oliver’s statement reflects his position as a chef, a public pedagogue and, importantly for the purposes of this article, a celebrity. Oliver’s is one of many voices that have entered the public realm to educ…
Australian LGBTQ teachers, exclusionary spaces and points of interruption
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) teachers are a marginalised group that historically have been absent from research on sexuality and schooling. Rather, much research in the field has focused upon the experiences of same sex attracted and increasingly, gender diverse young people in schools, as well as the delivery of sexuality education. Up until recently, very little research has been carried out that explicitly addresses th…
Queer superheroes
This paper troubles the im/possibilities of exploring difference through queer popular culture within the teacher education classroom. This article locates such pedagogical practice as existing in opposition to dominant neoliberal discourses around the marketization of higher education as well as queerness in mainstream popular culture, and the expectation of students that all education coursework should be ‘relevant’ to mainstream marketplace cl…
Coming out as a lesbian, gay or bisexual teacher
This paper examines the ‘coming out’ decisions at work of four lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) teachers in England. It argues that such decisions are complicated by heteronormative discursive practices within schools that render LGB sexualities silent while simultaneously demanding that they are spoken. This double bind for LGB teachers as well as the professional and personal implications of choosing to come out or not to come out within the wor…
Sexualities in education
Winning the West with Words
The lesson of this book is simple: words have consequences. The story James Joseph Buss tells in Winning the West with Words, however, is anything but simple. It is also long overdue. For some years now, historians of American Indians have attacked the narrative of statehood development that dominates histories of the Midwest and the Old Northwest. In this narrative, Indian removal is a stage in the transition from frontier to state so necessary …
Silence, desire and sexuality in and out of school
by Genaro Castro‐Vasquez, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 214 pp, 2007, £24.35, ISBN‐10 0739115375, ISBN‐13 978‐0739115374 by Sheila L. Cavanagh, Vancouver, UBC Press, 230 pp, 2007, £21.98, ISBN‐10 07
An annotated bibliography on gender in secondary education
London, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007, £25, ISBN 0‐850‐92846‐X This book offers an annotated bibliography of research carried out on gender and secondary education in five Commonwealth countries
The public sphere and debates about europe in Britain
This article addresses `media performance' and European governance. It examines how newspaper journalists view different aspects of their practices and roles in this process. First, the study provides a general picture of how journalism has responded to the transformation of politics resulting from advancing European integration. Second, it examines whether, based on journalists' assessments, this has involved a transformation of the practices an…
The public sphere and debates about europe in Britain
This article addresses `media performance' and European governance. It examines how newspaper journalists view different aspects of their practices and roles in this process. First, the study provides a general picture of how journalism has responded to the transformation of politics resulting from advancing European integration. Second, it examines whether, based on journalists' assessments, this has involved a transformation of the practices an…
Between activism and academia
This paper gives an account of a series of three Zoom zine-making workshops run between March and July 2020 that were themed the political, the personal and the practical. A micro-reading of the zines is offered as data that mirror the aims of the workshops, to queer time by slowing down and creating a pause. The process of zine-making as feminist praxis is examined, and the zines themselves are discussed as data that reflect specific moments in …
You’re actually the problem’
In 2016 the world witnessed a consolidation of a western brand of political ‘populist authoritarianism’ that is anti-globalisationalist and creates ‘shared objects of loathing’ in the popular imagination. This article engages with the implications of this affective and masculinist ‘post-truth’ era for higher education and analyses the narratives of teacher educators who teach compulsory classes based on inclusion and diversity. The article uses t…
Sexualities in education
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan
This paper explores the status of girls’ education in the schools of rural Balochistan in Pakistan, and examines the dimensions of access, enrolment and retention. In order to explore the complexities of this governmental problem, we will propose the concept of postcolonial Islamic governmentality. Drawing on Foucault’s work on the arts of government, with Dean’s (2010 D. Mitchell, ed. 2010. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. Los …
Queer superheroes
This paper troubles the im/possibilities of exploring difference through queer popular culture within the teacher education classroom. This article locates such pedagogical practice as existing in opposition to dominant neoliberal discourses around the marketization of higher education as well as queerness in mainstream popular culture, and the expectation of students that all education coursework should be ‘relevant’ to mainstream marketplace cl…
Winning the West with Words
The lesson of this book is simple: words have consequences. The story James Joseph Buss tells in Winning the West with Words, however, is anything but simple. It is also long overdue. For some years now, historians of American Indians have attacked the narrative of statehood development that dominates histories of the Midwest and the Old Northwest. In this narrative, Indian removal is a stage in the transition from frontier to state so necessary …
The public sphere and debates about europe in Britain
This article addresses `media performance' and European governance. It examines how newspaper journalists view different aspects of their practices and roles in this process. First, the study provides a general picture of how journalism has responded to the transformation of politics resulting from advancing European integration. Second, it examines whether, based on journalists' assessments, this has involved a transformation of the practices an…
An annotated bibliography on gender in secondary education
London, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007, £25, ISBN 0‐850‐92846‐X This book offers an annotated bibliography of research carried out on gender and secondary education in five Commonwealth countries
Silence, desire and sexuality in and out of school
by Genaro Castro‐Vasquez, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 214 pp, 2007, £24.35, ISBN‐10 0739115375, ISBN‐13 978‐0739115374 by Sheila L. Cavanagh, Vancouver, UBC Press, 230 pp, 2007, £21.98, ISBN‐10 07
Sexualities in education
Winning the West with Words
The lesson of this book is simple: words have consequences. The story James Joseph Buss tells in Winning the West with Words, however, is anything but simple. It is also long overdue. For some years now, historians of American Indians have attacked the narrative of statehood development that dominates histories of the Midwest and the Old Northwest. In this narrative, Indian removal is a stage in the transition from frontier to state so necessary …
Coming out as a lesbian, gay or bisexual teacher
This paper examines the ‘coming out’ decisions at work of four lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) teachers in England. It argues that such decisions are complicated by heteronormative discursive practices within schools that render LGB sexualities silent while simultaneously demanding that they are spoken. This double bind for LGB teachers as well as the professional and personal implications of choosing to come out or not to come out within the wor…
Queer superheroes
This paper troubles the im/possibilities of exploring difference through queer popular culture within the teacher education classroom. This article locates such pedagogical practice as existing in opposition to dominant neoliberal discourses around the marketization of higher education as well as queerness in mainstream popular culture, and the expectation of students that all education coursework should be ‘relevant’ to mainstream marketplace cl…
Australian LGBTQ teachers, exclusionary spaces and points of interruption
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) teachers are a marginalised group that historically have been absent from research on sexuality and schooling. Rather, much research in the field has focused upon the experiences of same sex attracted and increasingly, gender diverse young people in schools, as well as the delivery of sexuality education. Up until recently, very little research has been carried out that explicitly addresses th…
Someone has to keep shouting
In a recent interview with the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver stated that ‘Food is the most basic issue [...] it’s about health [...] someone has to take responsibility for this. Someone has to keep shouting’. Oliver’s statement reflects his position as a chef, a public pedagogue and, importantly for the purposes of this article, a celebrity. Oliver’s is one of many voices that have entered the public realm to educ…
You’re actually the problem’
In 2016 the world witnessed a consolidation of a western brand of political ‘populist authoritarianism’ that is anti-globalisationalist and creates ‘shared objects of loathing’ in the popular imagination. This article engages with the implications of this affective and masculinist ‘post-truth’ era for higher education and analyses the narratives of teacher educators who teach compulsory classes based on inclusion and diversity. The article uses t…
The boy in a dress
This article draws upon theories of gender, nation and haunting in order to examine what we term the spectre of the boy in a dress within two international contexts, Sweden and Australia. These two contexts have been chosen because, on the surface, they appear to be very different and yet as our analysis will reveal there are striking similarities around gender conformity discourse and nation, although they play out differently. We illustrate how…
Between activism and academia
This paper gives an account of a series of three Zoom zine-making workshops run between March and July 2020 that were themed the political, the personal and the practical. A micro-reading of the zines is offered as data that mirror the aims of the workshops, to queer time by slowing down and creating a pause. The process of zine-making as feminist praxis is examined, and the zines themselves are discussed as data that reflect specific moments in …
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan
This paper explores the status of girls’ education in the schools of rural Balochistan in Pakistan, and examines the dimensions of access, enrolment and retention. In order to explore the complexities of this governmental problem, we will propose the concept of postcolonial Islamic governmentality. Drawing on Foucault’s work on the arts of government, with Dean’s (2010 D. Mitchell, ed. 2010. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. Los …
‘I'm broken but I'm alive’
This paper reports on a project conducted between July 2020 and March 2021 that was developed within the context of COVID-19 and explored the ways in which Australian universities responded to the pandemic and the gendered effects of these responses. This paper demonstrates that sexist and gender discriminatory practices were amplified by the pandemic and that the gendered division of labour within higher education was made more apparent. We cont…
Performing feminist research
Presenting research findings outside of the form of a traditional research report requires different modes of making and communicating. This paper offers an account of how The #FEAS Report, a satirical news video, was made to communicate the findings from interviews and a survey as part of the mixed-methods study, Sexism, Higher Education, and COVID-19: The Australian Perspective to a wider public. Three creative tactics for research communicatio…
Sexisms and Un/welcome Diversity in Australian Universities
Australian university websites as colonialities of gender
This paper offers analysis of the first phase of a research project, Understanding and Addressing Everyday Sexisms in Australian Universities. This phase involved a critical content analysis of all 39 of Australia’s public university websites, focusing on how they represent gender, absences in relation to gender and the navigability of the websites in relation to gender equity policy. Drawing on Maria Lugones’s colonialities of gender, this paper…
Gender-related violence in Australian and UK universities
We analyse interview data from two projects undertaken in Australia and England to explore gender-related violence (GRV) and its impact on university staff. This focus is novel and important as most research on GRV in universities has focused on students, meaning that staff experiences are largely absent. We argue that universities are unsafe spaces for women staff, particularly those in minoritized groups, and in Australia for Aboriginal and Tor…
We are in a very precarious position
This paper draws upon empirical data in order to offer insights to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities in Peshawar City, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The paper also considers the resilience that the community developed during this time. Drawing on Butler's concept of precarity and liveability, we in this article demonstrate how the precarious positionalities of Khawaja Sara and H…
Sexisms and gender-washing in Australian academia
This paper offers an analysis of selected survey findings from a mixed methods research project, entitled Understanding and Addressing Everyday Sexisms in Australian Universities. The project is situated within the context of the negative impact of gender-based discrimination upon the higher education sector in Australia and internationally. The findings discussed in this paper relate to quantitative analyses of selected items from a national sur…
Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works)