Howarth, Caroline (2010) Revisiting gender identities and education: notes for a social psychology of resistant identities in modern culture. Papers on Social Representations, 19 (1). 8.1-8.17. ISSN 1021-5573
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Abstract
In this paper I offer a review and a reflection on Gender Identities and Education: The Impact of Starting School (Lloyd and Duveen, 1992) as a means of examining the detail and insights of Gerard Duveen’s contribution to the study of identity. What this study highlights is the contextual, imposed, inter-subjective and collaborative nature of identity, the relationship between re-presentation, culture and identity, and the dynamic, resistant and transformative character of identity production. I give detailed empirical examples of the genesis of representations of gender and gendered identities through a discussion of the interconnections between microgenesis, ontogenesis and sociogenesis. This leads onto a consideration of representations ‘that other’ more generally and the importance of including the social and material within the methodology of identity projects. As such, I argue, we can see the work of Duveen and his colleagues as valuable for a theory and a method of research of resistant identities in modern cultures, and thereby develop a social psychology properly equipped to research current social relations, and properly engaged with contemporary experiences of identity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/psr/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 The Author |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Social Psychology Departments > Psychological and Behavioural Science |
| Date Deposited: | 09 May 2011 15:54 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/35994/ |
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