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Feminist Agendas in Informal Education

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Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice

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Feminist agendas have had a place in youth work from its earliest days through women’s involvement in philanthropic initiatives in the 19th century. These movements espoused women’s right to vote, and to support in employment and in motherhood. Later, in the 20th century, from the mid-1970s to the 1980s, connections emerged between activists in the Women’s Liberation Movement and the espousal of feminist practice in ‘Girls’ Work’. These connections are being recovered in the contemporary context of a new wave of activism, now global in its scope, challenging patriarchal controls and capitalist commodification of young women’s bodies, spirits and minds inside schools and through popular culture.

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  1. University of Hull, UK

    Sinéad Gormally (Lecturer in Youth Work and Community Development) & Gill Hughes (Lecturer) (Lecturer in Youth Work and Community Development) &  (Lecturer)

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Batsleer, J. (2015). Feminist Agendas in Informal Education. In: Cooper, C., Gormally, S., Hughes, G. (eds) Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137393593_8

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