Friday 21st October 2022, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia and Online
1pm-5pm AEST
This free event will bring together researchers from across Australia who will discuss,
debate and demonstrate the politics of gender and education research in Australia and beyond.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roz Ward, Deakin University
Trouble and Strife: Conservative backlash, Safe Schools, and the Importance of the Family
Drawing on historical materialist methods and my autotheoretical doctoral research, I
present a re-imaging of Marxist understandings of gender and sexuality research and
practice within education. How do the productive and reproductive functions of capitalism materially benefit from gender-based oppression and the heteronormative family? How are these benefits provided and supported within the education system? With this evidence, I make the case that capitalism in crisis requires the politics of backlash as a means of increasing ideological pressure on the acceptance of normative ideas about gender and sexuality and the punishment of resistance.
Panel 1: The Australian State of Play for Gender and Education Research, featuring
Susanne Gannon (Western Sydney University), Emily Gray (RMIT University), Vic Rawlings
(The University of Sydney), Kerry Robinson (Western Sydney University) and Jackie Ullman (Western Sydney University)
Panel 2: Emerging Research in Gender and Education, featuring Javed Anwar, Alexandra
Ciaffaglione, Alamgir Yousufzai (all RMIT University)
Workshop: Publishing in the Gender and Education Journal, featuring Gender and
Education editors Susanne Gannon (WSU) and Kate Scantlebury (University of Delaware)
Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-politics-of-gender-andeducation-tickets-429531820237