Jessica Ringrose
Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education at the University College London Institute of Education.
I work at the intersections of Sociology of Education, critical psychology, media studies and gender and feminist studies.
I research young people's digitised gender and sexual identities and possibilities of resistance to 'compulsory' heterosexual norms of femininity and masculinity. I also research teens' digital gender and sexual activisms and feminist activisms. Recent studies include projects on feminism in school, digital feminist activism, youth 'sexting', and gender and sexual diversity and equality initiatives at school.
My work has explored and troubled ideas around girls 'sexualization' and 'pornification' and critiqued psychological discourses of (cyber)bullying, gender and aggression in school.
My research monograph book: Postfeminist Education? Girls and the sexual politics of schooling (2013, London, Routledge) explores how education is implicated in contemporary postfeminist panics over girlhood: girls' 'success', 'meanness' and 'sexiness'. The book offers new tools for thinking about and researching girls' subjectivity, agency and 'resistances' to the competitive heterosexual matrix. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415557498/
My co-edited book, Deleuze and Research Methodologies (with Rebecca Coleman, Edinburgh University Press) is the first collection to bring together a range of international, interdisciplinary essays that explore how Deleuzian thinking is shaping empirical social sciences research (Edinburgh University Press).http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748644117
Methodologically and theoretically my research draws on feminist poststructural, psychosocial, posthuman, new materialism and affect theories to understand subjectivity and social transformation. I have developed this line of thinking and research with my longstanding writing partner, Professor Emma Renold. Our recent edited book, Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation (Palsgrave, 2015, edited with Emma Renold and Danielle Egan) explores cutting edge research on children's sexuality especially foregrounding empirical research in this area.
My PostDoc (2004-2006, Cardiff University) Explored and deconstructed gendered discourses of young femininity, aggression and bullying.
My PhD (2004, York University, Toronto) examined anti-racist, feminist pedagogy in undergraduate Women's Studies. The thesis drew upon Black Feminist intersectional and psychosocial persepctives to help unpack the complexities and contradictions of racialized, classed, gendered and sexualized subjectivities. I focused on defensiveness in learning, particularly white defensiveness, and diverse performances of femininity in the classroom.
I work at the intersections of Sociology of Education, critical psychology, media studies and gender and feminist studies.
I research young people's digitised gender and sexual identities and possibilities of resistance to 'compulsory' heterosexual norms of femininity and masculinity. I also research teens' digital gender and sexual activisms and feminist activisms. Recent studies include projects on feminism in school, digital feminist activism, youth 'sexting', and gender and sexual diversity and equality initiatives at school.
My work has explored and troubled ideas around girls 'sexualization' and 'pornification' and critiqued psychological discourses of (cyber)bullying, gender and aggression in school.
My research monograph book: Postfeminist Education? Girls and the sexual politics of schooling (2013, London, Routledge) explores how education is implicated in contemporary postfeminist panics over girlhood: girls' 'success', 'meanness' and 'sexiness'. The book offers new tools for thinking about and researching girls' subjectivity, agency and 'resistances' to the competitive heterosexual matrix. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415557498/
My co-edited book, Deleuze and Research Methodologies (with Rebecca Coleman, Edinburgh University Press) is the first collection to bring together a range of international, interdisciplinary essays that explore how Deleuzian thinking is shaping empirical social sciences research (Edinburgh University Press).http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748644117
Methodologically and theoretically my research draws on feminist poststructural, psychosocial, posthuman, new materialism and affect theories to understand subjectivity and social transformation. I have developed this line of thinking and research with my longstanding writing partner, Professor Emma Renold. Our recent edited book, Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation (Palsgrave, 2015, edited with Emma Renold and Danielle Egan) explores cutting edge research on children's sexuality especially foregrounding empirical research in this area.
My PostDoc (2004-2006, Cardiff University) Explored and deconstructed gendered discourses of young femininity, aggression and bullying.
My PhD (2004, York University, Toronto) examined anti-racist, feminist pedagogy in undergraduate Women's Studies. The thesis drew upon Black Feminist intersectional and psychosocial persepctives to help unpack the complexities and contradictions of racialized, classed, gendered and sexualized subjectivities. I focused on defensiveness in learning, particularly white defensiveness, and diverse performances of femininity in the classroom.
less
InterestsView All (59)
Uploads
Papers by Jessica Ringrose