Art, Education and Gender : The Shaping of Female Ambition.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (198 pages)
- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education Series .
- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education Series .
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Identity -- Introduction -- Gender and sexual identity - how women come to view themselves as female -- Sex or gender? -- Sexuality and sexual desire -- Gender display -- Gender as performance -- The family and gender identity -- School, education and gender identity -- Bourdieu and identity -- Bourdieu and female capital -- Work and gender identity -- Femininity and the body -- BA (Ed) Art students' notion of their femininity -- Art as a defining characteristic of BA (Ed) students' self-identity -- 2 The Construction of Women as Artists: Art, Gender and Society -- The gendering of genius -- Women as creators of culture -- Women and the modern movement -- Women and the culture of the art school -- Feminist art -- BA (Ed) Art students' notion of their artistic self -- 3 Women, Subject Choice and Employment -- Education, subject choice, employment and gender -- Teacher attitudes, expectations and gender -- Gender, subject choice and attainment -- Schools and subject choice -- BA (Ed) Art students and secondary art teachers -- Social class, gender and attainment -- Access to further education -- Parental and family influence -- Higher education opportunities -- Occupational choice and gender -- Occupational segregation -- Women and skilled work -- Teaching as an occupation -- Maternal pedagogy and feminised performances in teaching -- BA (Ed) Art students and their views on teaching as a career -- 4 Women and Art Education -- Early art education for women: impact and documentation -- Art education, social class and accomplishment -- Schools of design -- Women as arbiters of taste and art appreciation -- Art education in the twentieth century -- Child art and issues of gender -- Women as art professionals. Women as art educators -- Changes in children's art education -- Art education and the women's movement -- Women educators and the hidden stream -- Postmodernism and art education -- Education for women artists -- The gendering of art education -- Art education: the students' experiences: mother and father as art educator -- Art teacher influence -- Teacher as artist -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.