The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning
This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing fiel
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THE PALGRAVE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF WOMEN AND OUTDOOR LEARNING Edited by Tonia Gray and Denise Mitten
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Series Editor Yvette Taylor School of Education University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK “As a male in a profession perfused with male hegemony, this book has opened my eyes to the many profound—yet often unnoticed—thoughts, feelings and contributions of female colleagues. It is a waymark along the path towards further maturation that all involved in our profession will continue to journey.” —John Quay, Associate Professor in Education, University of Melbourne, Australia “Gray and Mitten’s edited book provides important perspectives about women in the outdoors. It emphasizes the ongoing need to hear women’s voices and normalize their contributions. Although inroads have been made and the playing field often is perceived as level, the ongoing need is to celebrate and challenge gender equality and equity in the outdoors.” —Karla A. Henderson, Professor Emeritus of Leisure Behavior, Gender & Diversity, and Organized Camping, North Carolina State University, USA “Unconscious bias in a male constructed field like the outdoors needs constant attention as both men and women are affected by it. I have been part of teams and committees that worked hard to achieve ‘balance’ only for it to slip away once it was achieved. The bias, present in both men and also, surprisingly to me, women, does not go away. It needs our constant effort. This book is a major contribution to just that.” —Chris Loynes, Reader in Outdoor Studies, University of Cumbria, UK “This book has challenged my good intentions around and helped to expose my misconceptions of gender issues in the outdoors. It has moved me closer toward a muchneeded understanding of the issues and challenges women face. It’s an absolute must read for those who wish to better understand the gender bias that favours men in outdoor education.” —Tom Potter, Associate Professor in the School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism, Lakehead University, Canada
This Series aims to provide a comprehensive space for an increasingly diverse and complex area of interdisciplinary social science research: gender and education. Because the field of women and gender studies is developing rapidly and becoming ‘internationalised’ – as are traditional social science disciplines such as sociology, educational studies, social geography, and so on – there is a greater need for this dynamic, global Series that plots emerging definitions and debates and monitors critical complexities of gender and education. This Series has an explicitly feminist approach and orientation and attends to key theoretical and methodological debates, ensuring a continued conversation and relevance within the well-established, inter-disciplinary field of gender and education. The Series combines renewed and revitalised feminist research methods and theories with emergent and salient public policy issues. These include pre-compulsory and post-compulsory education; ‘early years’
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