Feminist New Materialism, Girlhood, and the School Ball

Engaging with feminist new materialism, Toni Ingram reveals the ways in which the school ball (or prom) can be understood as an assemblage of material objects, spaces, practices, ideas and imaginings which contribute to the process of becoming school ball-girl. The ball-girl is not a fixed identity or subject but is an intra-active becoming - a dynamic, shifting process where bodies, sexuality and femininities are relationally produced. (Re)conceptualising the school ball-girl as emergent phenomena provides openings for thinking about girls and this schooling practice beyond popular cultural narratives. Building on the social theory of Barad, Bennett, Best, Deleuze and Guattari, this book offers a new perspective on girls, sexuality, gender and schooling, while also exploring the potential of feminist new materialisms for rethinking educational practices and the human subject.>

List of contents

Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Becoming School Ball-Girl
2. Entanglements that Matter
3. School Ball-Girl Matter(ings)
4. Once Upon a Space and Time
5. Becoming Ball-Girl-Bodies
6. Ball-Girl-Date Affections
7. Ever After . An Ending of Sorts
References
Index

About the author

Toni Ingram is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Product details

• Authors: Toni Ingram
• Assisted by: Jayne Osgood (Editor), Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781350215276
• ISBN: 978-1-350-21527-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Feminism and feminist theory, feminist new materialism; prom