Description:
Teachers, Gender and the Feminisation Debate critically engages with the claim that teaching is a feminised profession and offers a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the way gender and power play out in the lives of male and female teachers.
Review Quotes:
"Marie-Pierre Moreau's Teacher, Gender and the Feminisation Debate provides a nuanced analysis of the intersections of gender and teaching that challenges everything we thought we knew about them. By critically engaging with the discourses of teaching as "feminized", Moreau examines the power structures that shift with different teaching contexts and historical eras in the global North and South, and by doing so, she demonstrates how contributions of women teachers become (re)constructed as inferior to men's educational achievements, in spite of the profession being marked as a 'caring profession naturally served by women'. This book is an important work for all scholars who care about women's and men's contributions in formal education worldwide."
Nancy Niemi, Author of Degrees of Difference (Routledge, 2017) and Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives at the Poorvu Center for Teaching & Learning, Yale University, USA.