Profile

Dr Mary Jane Kehily

Higher education
1999 PhD
Title: Learning sex and doing gender: cultures of heterosexuality in the secondary school
1992 M. Soc Sci Cultural Studies
1978 Post Graduate Certificate in Education
1977 B.A. (Hons) Humanities

Present post
2000 – Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies, Faculty of Education and Language
Studies, The Open University. Current editor of Gender and Education.

Select Publications: Books:

Kehily, M.J. (2002) Sexuality, Gender and Schooling: shifting agendas in social learning, London:
Routledge, ISBN 0-415-28047-8

Kehily, M.J. & Swann, J. (eds.) (2003) Children’s Cultural Worlds, John Wiley in association with
the Open University, ISBN 0-470-84694-1.

Kehily, M.J. (ed.) (2004) An Introduction to Childhood Studies, Maidenhead: Open University
Press/McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-335-21267-0.

Kehily, M.J. (ed.) (2006) Understanding Youth, perspectives, identities and practices, London:
Sage/The Open University.

Nayak, A and Kehily, M.J. (2008) Gender, Youth and Culture, young masculinities and
femininities, Basingstoke: Palgave.

Kehily, M.J. (ed.) (in press) An Introduction to Childhood Studies, 2nd edition. Maidenhead: Open
University Press/McGraw Hill.

Journal Special Issue

Kehily, M.J. (2005) From the margins to the centre: childhood as a gendered experience, ‘Gendered
Childhoods’ (guest editor) special issue of Gender and Education, 17, 5, pp. 463-69.

Refereed journal articles:

Nayak, A. & Kehily, M.J. (2006) ‘Gender undone: subversion, regulation and embodiment in the
work of Judith Butler’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 27, (4).

Kehily, M.J. & Pattman R. (2006) Middle class struggle? Identity work and leisure among sixth
formers in the UK, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol 6, no.1.

Kehily, M.J. (2004) Girls on girls: tensions and anxieties in research with girls Feminism and
Psychology, 14, 3, pp. 366-370.

Kehily, M.J. (2004) Boys and Girls: sexuality as performance in the primary school, Education 3-
13, June, pp. 65-72.

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Kehily, M.J., Mac an Ghaill, M., Epstein, D. & Redman, P. (2002) Private girls and public worlds:
producing femininities in the primary school, Discourse, special issue on friendship, vol 23, no. 2,
pp. 167-178, ISSN 0159-6306

Redman, P., Epstein, D., Kehily, M.J., & Mac an Ghaill, M. (2002) Boys Bonding: same-sex
friendship, the unconscious and heterosexual masculinities, Discourse, special issue on friendship,
vol 23, no. 2, pp. 179-192, ISSN 0159-6306

Kehily, M.J. (2002) Sexing the Subject: teachers, pedagogies and sex education, Sex Education,
Vol 3 (3), ISSN 1468-1811

Kehily, M.J. (2001) Understanding heterosexualities: masculinities, embodiment and schooling,

Men and Masculinities, special issue 'Disciplining and punishing masculinities' vol.4, no.2, pp.173-
185, ISSN 1097-184X

Epstein, D., Kehily, M., Mac an Ghaill, M., & Redman, P. (2001) Boys and girls come out to play:
making masculinities and femininities in school playgrounds, Men and Masculinities special issue
'Disciplining and punishing masculinities' vol.4, no.2, pp.158-172 , ISSN 1097-184X

Kehily, M.J. (1999) More Sugar? Teenage magazines, gender displays and sexual learning,
European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 65-89, ISSN 1367-5494

Chapters in books:
Kehily, M.J. and Nayak, A. (2006) Lads and Laughter: humour and the production of heterosexual
hierarchies, in M. Arnot and M. Mac an Ghaill (eds.) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender and
Education, London: Routlede/Falmer [reprint of 1997 paper].

Kehily, M.J. (2005) The trouble with sex, in G. Lloyd Problem Girls, Understanding and
supporting troubled and troublesome girls and young women, London: Routledge.

Kehily, M.J. (2004) Girls and sexuality: continuities and change for girls in school, in A. Harris
(ed.) All About the Girl, Power, Culture and Identity, New York: RoutledgeFalmer, to be published
June 2004.

Pattman, R. & Kehily, M.J. ((2004) Gender, in Doing Research with Children and Young People,
London: Sage/The Open University, ISBN 0-7619-4381-1 (OU co-published text).

Kehily, M.J. & Montgomery, H. (2003) Innocence and experience, in M. Woodhead, & H.
Montgomery (eds.) Understanding Childhood, an interdisciplinary approach, Chichester:
Wiley/The Open University ISBN 0-470-84692-5 (OU co-published text).

Barnes, P. & Kehily, M.J. (2003) Play and the Cultures of Childhood, in Kehily, M.J. & Swann, J.
(2003) (eds.) Children’s Cultural Worlds, Chichester: Wiley/The Open University ISBN 0-470-
84694-1 (OU co-published text)

Kehily, M.J. (2003) Consumption and creativity, in Kehily, M.J. & Swann, J. (2003) (eds.)
Children’s Cultural Worlds, Chichester: Wiley/The Open University ISBN 0-470-84694-1 (OU co-
published text)

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