"It is widely believed that children enter school with femininities, masculinities and other social subjectivities constituted in their homes and communities through a variety of everyday practices. These common practices have rarely been designated as pedagogies, but do have the form and intent of practices that are associated with schooling. This volume fills a current gap in gender and policy studies and curriculum and teaching by demonstrating the role of the pedagogies of everyday life in individuals' development.

"By placing pedagogy in a wider context, this book complements and goes beyond the current school-based focus of feminist and critical pedagogies. The scholarship is international, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural in scope. " -- Linda K. Christian-Smith, The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

"I like Luke's rationale for the book--that the teaching of and learning of feminine identities are constructed in a variety of transgressive and normative models in public discourses. I haven't found anything like this that brings together some of these overlapping and disparate discourses on women's identity formation--Luke does in a very imaginative and sometimes provocative way.

"What she postulates is a wide open reading of pedagogy--that we have learned from and have been taught by not just parents and teachers, but cinema, books and magazines, peers, the law, psychological theories, and toys and play. " -- Delese Wear, author of The Center of the Web: Women and Solitude and co-author of Literary Anatomies: Women's Bodies and Health in literature