Diffractive Ripples of Girls, Schooling, Feminism and Femininities.
This article explores the relational becomings of girls, feminism, femininity and the schooling environment. Drawing on feminist new materialisms and affect theory, it conceptualises femininity and feminism as emerging through dynamic material-discursive assemblages of sensations, bodies, things, id...
| Published in: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 39; no. 121; pp. 282 - 298 |
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Sep2024
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