Are My Pants Lowering Your Test Scores? Blaming Girls and Girls' Empowerment for the "Boy Crisis" in Education

Autor/inn/en	Goodkind, Sara; Bay-Cheng, Laina
Titel	Are My Pants Lowering Your Test Scores? Blaming Girls and Girls' Empowerment for the "Boy Crisis" in Education
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 53 (2021) 5, S.745-763 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Goodkind, Sara) ORCID (Bay-Cheng, Laina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X19892357
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Single Sex Classes; Minority Group Students; Low Income Students; Females; Sex Role; Sexuality; Student Behavior; Empowerment; Sex Stereotypes; Neoliberalism; Responsibility; African American Students; Public Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Single-sex classes; Single-sex schools; Single sex schools; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Weibliches Geschlecht; Geschlechterrolle; Sexualität; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	Drawing on participatory research in a high school implementing single-sex classes, this article demonstrates how single-sex education masks racialized economic inequality by framing low academic achievement among low-income youth of color as a function of gender, thereby scapegoating girls for a supposed "boy crisis" in education. We demonstrate this with data collected by and from students, as well as from educators and parents, delineating how girls of color were held accountable for boys' sexual and even academic behavior. We argue that this misattribution of blame succeeds by capitalizing on entrenched gender roles that cast girls/women as responsible for boys/men and on neoliberal rhetoric trumpeting postfeminist, commercialized "girl power" and the virtue of personal responsibility. We focus particularly on how girls' supposed newfound empowerment is folded into the long-standing discourse of girl blame by posing girl power as a problem for boys. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01