Ruler-skirt risings: Becoming crafty with how gender and sexuality education research-activisms can come to matter

Renold, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6472-0224 2019. Ruler-skirt risings: Becoming crafty with how gender and sexuality education research-activisms can come to matter. Jones, T., Coll, L. and Taylor, Y., eds. Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 115-140. (10.1007/978-3-030-24205-3_6)

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Abstract

Enlivened by queer and feminist enactments of new materialist, posthuman and affect theory, this chapter explores what has become possible with speculative pARTicipatory activist encounters with young people, educational practitioners and politicians in the field of gender and sexuality education in Wales (UK). Sparked by a throw-away comment of how some boys use rulers to lift up girls’ skirts, the chapter maps what else a ruler can do through a series of five ‘ruler-skirt risings’. Each rising provides a glimpse into the agency of 'd/artaphacts’ (arts-based research objects) across micro-resonating moments to macro forcefields of change. From fashion activism to curriculum and national policy, every rising takes form and shape to in-form and re-animate how sexism, sexual violence and sexuality education might be felt, noticed and engaged with differently, but never in ways known in advance and always on the move.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > L Education (General)
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:	9783030242046
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 April 2019
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2024 11:51
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/121280

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