‘Well—are girls like boys, then?’: genre and the gender divide in school stories

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Penelope Fleming-fido
Keyword(s):  
School Stories ◽  
Gender Divide

Enforcing Performance: Disciplining Girls in British Co-educational Boarding School Stories, 1928–58

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
CLARE HOLLOWELL
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
School Stories ◽  
School Story ◽  
Girls School ◽  
A Site

This paper examines girls and power in British co-educational boarding school stories published from 1928 to 1958. While feminist scholars have hailed the girls’ school story as a site of potential resistance to constricting gender roles, the same can not be said of the co-educational school story. While the genres share many tropes and characterisation, the move from an all-female world to a co-educational setting allows the characters access to a narrower range of gender roles, and renders the female characters significantly less powerful. The disciplinary structures of the co-educational schools, mirroring those in real life, operate in a supposedly progressive manner that in fact removes girls from access to power.

School Stories: How Do Exemplary Teen Writers Portray Academics?

Roeper Review ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill M. Olthouse ◽  
Alan L. Edmunds ◽  
Adrienne E. Sauder
Keyword(s):  
School Stories

School stories, 1970?1980

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Nicholas Tucker
Keyword(s):  
School Stories
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