Answering Back This page intentionally left blank. Answering Back Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools Jane Kenway and Sue Willis with Jill Blackmore and Léonie Rennie London and New York First published in the UK 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1998 Jane Kenway and Sue Willis with Jill Blackmore and Leonie Rennie All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been applied for ISBN 0-203-20046-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-26573-4 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-18191-7 (pbk) ISBN 0-415-18190-9 (hbk) I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, they have changed my ideas: they’ve gone through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind EMILY BRONTË This page intentionally left blank. Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi 1 That mysterious gap ‘between hope and happening’ 1 2 Success 33 3 Knowledge 65 4 Power 97 5 Emotion 1 31 6 Responsibility 1 65 Conclusion 2 00 Notes 2 12 References 2 14 Index 2 19 This page intentionally left blank. Acknowledgements We wish to express our gratitude to the Australian Research Council which funded much of the research upon which this book was based. We wish to thank the many principals, teachers, students and policy-makers who shared their ideas, time and daily activities with us. The following people worked with us: Daphne Bastow, Janine Collier, Shirley Dally, Merilyn Evans, Andrea Fulton, Linda McGuckin, Vanessa Reynolds, Pauline Richards, Shirley Tucker and Maggie Woodhead. We express our sincere appreciation to them all. We also wish to thank Elizabeth Weiss and Bob Lingard for their advice, encouragement and support as editors. We thank Deakin, Murdoch and Curtin universities for providing us with the institutional bases from which to undertake this research. Finally, we thank our families for living the values we value.
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