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Publication Date: 2025
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Gender Troubling Critical Whiteness Studies in Education
Moira Ozias; Z. Nicolazzo
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v38 n2 p298-313 2025
Gender is gaining more attention as a category of analysis in educational scholarship; however, much misunderstanding of gender remains, especially in how sex and gender are often treated as synonymous analytics. Additionally, gender and race are often treated as wholly separate despite their ongoing entwined epistemic and ontological genealogies. While critical studies of whiteness hold the potential to interrogate how gender itself is a violent imposition of white supremacy (Ozias & Nicolazzo, 2021; Spillers, 1987), the present study uncovers substantively different findings. Specifically, our content analysis of the past decade of CwS literature in higher education demonstrates what we identify as "an investment in technologies of whiteness"; a commitment that reinforces reductive, harmful, and inaccurate knowledge/power regimes of race/gender. In doing so, much of the CwS scholarship (including our own) undermines its intended goals by furthering, rather than dismantling, the effects of white cisheteropatriarchy.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Whites, Racial Attitudes, Racial Differences, Racial Discrimination, Racial Factors, Racism, Gender Bias, Gender Differences, Gender Discrimination, Gender Issues, Sex Stereotypes, Sex Fairness, Social Justice, College Environment, Women Faculty, Educational Research, Misinformation, Educational Change
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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