The reproduction of the gender regime
The military and education as state apparatuses constraining the military wife student
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12231546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mel Macer (0000-0002-6362-4465, Bath Spa University, corresponding author), Charlotte Chadderton (0000-0001-6022-6931, Bath Spa University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 337-354 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09540253.2020.1765994 |
| OpenAlex | W3026800575 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
This paper reports on the experiences and perspectives of military wives as students and potential students of Access to Higher Education Diplomas, a qualification for widening participation in HE for ‘non-traditional' students in the UK – an under-researched topic. Contributing to both Marxist and feminist theory, we argue that the combined practices of the state apparatuses, the military and education system, constrain these women's access to, and progress in, HE, and that the patriarchal gender regime is reproduced through institutional structures and practices. The study found that military wives' own education plays a secondary role to their serving partners’ military careers; that the military promotes their roles as wives and mothers above adult educational opportunities; and that despite the widening participation agenda, an inflexible HE system further blocks educational opportunities for this group
Political science · Reproduction · Sociology · State (computer science · Wife · Computer Science · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law
Sexing the Soldier
Maneuvers
The Managed Heart
‘Bodies that Matter’
War is where the hearth is
The militarisation of English schools
On reflection
Working‐class women on an Access course
A Risky Business? Mature Working-class Women Students and Access to Higher Education Correspondence
Postfeminist education? Girls and the sexual politics of schooling
Experiencing the barriers
Experiencing the barriers
Transforming marginalised adult learners’ views of themselves
It's Taking Me a Long Time but I'll Get There in the End’
No Life Like It
Balancing paid work and studies
Bodies That Matter
Doing Gender
The state, gender, and sexual politics
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |