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HEQ Forum Introduction: The Continuing Promise of Gendered Analysis in the History of Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2025

Lucy E. Bailey*
Affiliation:
Oklahoma State University, USA

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References

1 Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” American Historical Review 91, no. 5 (Dec. 1986), 1053–75; Joan W. Scott, “Gender: Still a Useful Category of Analysis?,” Diogenes 57, no. 1 (Feb. 2010), 7-14.

2 Scott, “Gender: Still a Useful Category of Analysis?,” 13.

3 Lucy E. Bailey and Karen Graves, “Gendering the History of Education,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education, ed. John L. Rury and Eileen H. Tamura (Oxford University Press, 2019), 355-71.

4 For example, see Jackie M. Blount’s study, Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century (State University of New York Press, 2005) and her forthcoming book Straighten Up, Girls and Boys: How Schools Have Shaped Sexuality and Gender (Havard Education Press, 2026).

5 Suzanne Pharr, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism (Chardon Press, 1988).

6 Saidiya Hartman’s beautiful work, Wayward Lives, is particularly clear in this regard. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (W. W. Norton, 2019).