Educating the Gendered Citizen »

Focusing on the relationship between gender, education and citizenship, this book explores, from a feminist perspective, how the concept of citizenship has been used in relation to gender and how young people are being prepared for male and female forms of citizenship.

A gender analysis of a range of citizenship education debates are explored here including:

• whether current conceptualisations of democratic citizenship are appropriate and address the lives and concerns of women
• how citizenship education in the past and present has represented women and the dilemmas associated with gender equality as an ideal of citizenship education
• the impact of globalisation on women and gender relations, the link between individualisation, gender and social change and how global citizenship education is being developed in relation to gender issues
• what alternative gender sensitive models of citizenship and democracy have been/could be promoted through schooling.