Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods charts the evolving
nature of feminist theory and research methods in childhood studies
and the generative potential this holds for researchers, academics
and educators to continue to push ideas and practices. The book
traces the threads of affect and effect that feminist theories and
methodologies have made over time to thinking more, and
differently, about gender in childhood. In the wake of the 'new
materialist turn' in feminist research, the book sought to address
two pressing questions: what is especially new about feminist new
materialism, and what is especially feminist about feminist new
materialism. These questions are generative, troubling, unsettling
and invited the contributors on an adventure that involved
re-turning and reconfiguring ideas and practices about gender and
childhood. Along with the editors, Jayne Osgood (UK), and Kerry H.
Robinson (Australia), five key international feminist scholars,
Mindy Blaise (Australia), Bronwyn Davies (Australia), Debbie
Epstein (UK), Jen Lyttleton-Smith (UK), and Veronica
Pacini-Ketchabaw (Canada) collaborated on this book project. Their
reflective accounts capture the contribution of their own work and
that of their peers, to advancing research practices and
theorisations of gender in childhood. Having all approached the
study of gendered childhoods in creative and critical ways, these
important feminist researchers re-engage and critically reflect on
their earlier work alongside their more contemporary contributions
to the field. The book is as much about the processes involved in
its creation as it about the material/digital end product. The
chapters work with both familiar and unfamiliar feminist
methodological frameworks that bring affect, materiality and
embodiment, as well as textual representations of gender and
childhood, into play. The book engages with, and generates artwork,
poetry, photographs as a means to grapple with how gender,
childhood, family, curriculum and policy have been, and might be
researched. The book captures a lively, collaborative, feminist
experiment that sought to make space for fresh conceptualisations
of gender in childhood. Issues addressed include: social justice
and transformative methodologies in childhood research; advancing
theoretical perspectives that contribute to fresh understandings of
gender in young children's lives; the ways that research into
gender in childhood play out in educational agendas; and the
specific gender issues perceived critical to address in
contemporary childhoods lived in the post-Anthropocene.
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