Garth Stahl - Masculinity and Aspiration in an Era of Neoliberal Education: International Perspectives

This book makes an invaluable contribution to theorising and analysing the ways in which masculinities and aspirations can only be understood across neoliberal contexts. Readers will undoubtedly deepen their understandings of particular country contexts and be convinced that gender and education can most fruitfully be analysed by viewing them within the neoliberal international youthscapes in which they are constituted. This fascinating collection will be invaluable to all those interested in new ways of understanding boys, masculinities and education. It deserves to be widely read.

Ann Phoenix, Professor of Education, Institute of Education,
University of London

In this edited volume, all contributions are sharply focused on the core issue of how neoliberalism acts as a force to produce and restrain young mens possibilities and aspirations, and each give the reader something different to think about through the array of issues, contexts, and subject positions being discussed. Stahl, Nelson, and Wallace have brought together a genuinely coherent collection of chapters, and combine this with scholarly authority and excellence from their introduction right through to the last page. This is an important and very welcome addition to the field.

Steven Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Sociology,
Monash University, Australia

In this important new book, the authors explore the various forces changing men's lives and redefining the way masculinity has historically been constructed. Insightful and rich with detailed analysis, this book will be an invaluable resource to scholars and students for years to come.

Pedro A. Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education,
University of California, Los Angeles

This collection investigates the ways in which boys and young men negotiate neoliberal discourse surrounding aspiration and how neoliberalism shapes their identities. Expanding the field of masculinity studies in education, the contributors offer international comparisons of different subgroups of boys and young men in primary, secondary, and university settings. A cross-sectional analysis of race, gender, and class theory is employed to illuminate the role of aspiration in shaping boys identities, which adds nuance to their complex identity work in neoliberal times.

Garth Stahl is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Literacy Education and Sociology at the University of Australia, Australia.

Joseph Nelson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College, US, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for the Study of Boys and Girls Lives at the University of Pennsylvania, US.

Derron Wallace is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education at Brandeis University, US.

Series Editors Wayne Martino, Emma Renold, Goli Rezai-Rashti, Jessica Ringrose and Nelson Rodriguez

1Childhood Sexuality and AIDS Education

The Price of Innocence

Deevia Bhana

2LGBT-Q Teachers, Civil Partnership and Same-Sex Marriage

The Ambivalences of Legitimacy

Aoife Neary

3Masculinity and Aspiration in the Era of Neoliberal Education

International Perspectives

Edited by Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson, and Derron O. Wallace

Edited by
Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson,
and Derron O. Wallace

First published 2017

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Names: Stahl, Garth, author.
Title: Masculinity and aspiration in the era of neoliberal education :
international perspectives / by Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson,
and Derron O. Wallace.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge critical
studies in gender and sexuality in education ; 3
Identifiers: LCCN 2016045406 | ISBN 9781138123038 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Sex differences in educationCross-cultural studies. |
Vocational interestsSex differencesCross-cultural studies. |
MenIdentityCross-cultural studies. | Neoliberalism
Cross-cultural studies.
Classification: LCC LC212.9 .S83 2017 | DDC 370.15/1dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045406

ISBN: 978-1-138-12303-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-64910-8 (ebk)

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