Markets and Misogyny
Educational Research on Educational Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8408296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Power (0000-0003-3287-0003, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-188 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8527.2006.00340.x |
| OpenAlex | W2043750083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper has arisen from a concern that much recent policy-related research on markets displays misogynistic tendencies. In both the media and academic accounts it would appear as though the blame for social and educational inequalities can now be laid at the door of women – particularly middle-class mothers. Through examining competing perspectives on how we might understand this attribution of blame, this paper argues that their guilt is best explained not through changes in behaviour but through the conjuncture of shifts in education policy and related research. These shifts have turned the attention of research away from the public domain of the state and the organisational and cultural attributes of schools to focus on the private domain of domestic decision-making. But the representations of these public and private domains are underpinned by unexamined gendered and ideological subtexts which have limited our powers of description and explanation. The paper concludes by suggesting strategies through which we might both address the tacit misogyny in research on markets and develop more sophisticated accounts of contemporary changes
Attribution · Blame · Economics · Ideology · Inequality · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology
Invisible leaders? Reviewing contemporary evidence about women leaders in education
Civil society
Social representations of educability in Finland
Explorations in policy enactment
Social inequalities, gender and lifelong learning
Using Bourdieu’s concept of doxa to illuminate classed practices in an English fee-paying school
Social and spatial disparities in emotional responses to education
Education and the Middle Classes
Engendering debate
How Not to be a Hypocrite
Class Strategies and the Education Market
‘Restructuring relations’ between the state, family, work and education in globalising economies
Privatisation and Social Policy
Citizenship
Marketization and privatization in mass education systems
Personal and political
My mum would be as pleased as punch if I actually went, but my dad seems a bit more particular about it’
Self-interest and Liberal Educational Discourse
Unruly practices
Justice interruptus
Education and the Working-Class
Some Meanings of 'the Private' in Sociological Thought
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |