A “discourse of the pinks and blues”: Some arguments for the visibility of gender in the PSHE curriculum

Health Education

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 30-34

  Prendergast, Shirley ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037920521     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654289610125543     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Connell, R.W., Gender and Power, Polity Press, Oxford, 1987.
2. Gray, J., Men Are Born from Mars, Women Are Born from Venus, HarperCollins, New York, NY, 1992.
3. Duncombe, J. and Marsden, D., “Love and intimacy: the gender division of emotion and ‘emotion work’”, Sociology, Vol. 27 No. 2, May 1993, pp. 221-41.
4. Tannen, D., You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Virago, London, 1991.
5. Golombok, S. and Fivush, R., Gender Development, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994.
6. Goldmann, R. and Goldmann, J., Children's Sexual Thinking, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1982.
7. Walkerdine, V., “Sex, power and pedagogy”, Screen Education, Vol. 38, 1981, pp. 14-21.
8. Brown, N. and France, P., ”‘Only cissies wear dresses’: a look at sexist talk in the nursery”, in Weiner, G. (Ed.), Just a Bunch of Girls, Open University Press, Buckingham, 1983.
9. Thorne, B., Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School, Open University Press, Buckingham, 1993.
10. Chandler, E., Educating Adolescent Girls, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1980.
11. Allen, I., “Education in sex and personal relationships”, Policy Studies Institute Report, No. 665, Blackmore Press, 1987.
12. Holland, J., Ramazanoglu, C. and Scott, S., Don’t Die of Ignorance: I Nearly Died of Embarrassment, Condoms in Context, WRAP Paper 2, Tuffnell Press, London, 1990.
13. Thomson, R. and Scott, S., Learning about Sex, Young Women and the Social Construction of Sexual Identity, WRAP Paper 4, Tuffnell Press, London, 1992.
14. Tobin-Richards, M.H., Boxer, A.M. and Petersen, A.C., “The psychological significance of pubertal change”, in Brooks-Gunn, J. and Petersen, A. (Eds), Girls at Puberty: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives, Plenum Press, New York, NY, 1983.
15. Simmons, R.G. and Blyth, D.A., Moving into Adolescence, Aldine and De Gruyter, New York, NY, 1988.
16. Rocheron, Y. and Whyld, J., “Sex education”, in Whyld, J. (Ed.), Sexism in the Secondary Curriculum, Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1983.
17. Prendergast, S., This is the Time to Grow Up. Girls’ Experience of Menstruation in School, 2nd ed., FPA, London, 1994.
18. Lee, C., The Ostrich Position, Schooling and Mystification, Writers and Readers Press, London, 1983.
19. Lees, S., Losing Out, Hutchinson, London, 1986.
20. Prendergast, S. and Prout, A., “Learning about birth: parenthood and sex education in English secondary schools”, in Garcia, J., Kilpatrick, R. and Richards, M. (Eds), The Politics of Maternity Care: Services for Childbearing Women in Twentieth-century Britain, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990.
21. Prendergast, S. and Forrest, S., “Gendered groups and the negotiation of heterosexuality in school”, in Segal, L. (Ed.), New Sexual Agendas, Macmillan, 1996, (forthcoming).
22. Prendergast, S. and Forrest, S., “‘Shorties, low-lifers, hard nuts and kings’. Boys and the transformation of emotions”, in Bendelow, G. and Williams, S. (Eds), Emotions in Social Life: Social Theories and Contemporary Issues, Routledge, London, 1996, (forthcoming).
23. Askew, S. and Ross, C., Boys Don’t Cry. Boys and Sexism in Education, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1988.
24. National Union of Teachers, “School cash shortages endanger children's health and safety”, news release, February 1992.
25. Prendergast, S., “Learning the body in the mind”, in Holland, J. and Blair, M. (Eds), Debates and Issues in Feminist Research and Pedagogy, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1995.
26. Scraton, S., “Boys muscle in where angels fear to tread, girls sub-cultures and physical activities”, in Horne, J., Jary, J. and Tomkinson, A. (Eds), Sports Leisure and Social Relations, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1987.
27. Connell, B., Which Way Is Up?, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983.
28. Kleven, K.V., “Deadly earnest or postmodern irony: New gender clashes?”, Young, Nordic Journal of Youth Research, Vol. 1 No. 4, November 1993, pp. 40-59.
29. Holland, J., Ramazanoglu, C. and Sharpe, S., “Contested knowledges and the achievement of sexual safety”, paper presented to the New Sexual Agendas Conference, Middlesex University, July 1995.