Rethinking gendered regulations and resistances in Education

This collection is the culmination of the 7th Gender and Education Association (GEA) Conference held 25–27 March 2009 at the Institute of Education (IOE), University of London.We hope the collection will serve as a form of resistant political practice that ‘talks back’ to these persistent bio-politics of regulation and control. Contributions address gender and power dynamics from a range of diverse perspectives, some not envisioned in our original call, perhaps a strong indicator that the theme did the very work of conceptual provocation and proliferation we had hoped it would. In thinking about the diverse contributions, ‘regulations’ and ‘resistances’ have been consciously pluralised to recognise the multiplicity in approaches, while the verb ‘re-thinking’ is a gesture to how the pieces set our thinking about gender and education into renewed motion