Peter Redman

Boys and Girls Come Out to Play Making Masculinities and Femininities in School Playgrounds

This article is based on the ethnographic study of childrens play at break time in two contrasting primary schools in north London. Play in the two schools was differently gendered, at least partly because of the different organization of the playground. The article will argue that children will use the means available to them to construct gender in their playgrounds and that this will frequently involve the reproduction of hegemonic cultural identities and relations of power. However, the article will go on to argue that local interventions at the level of the individual school can and do bring into question such identities and power relations, in the process making available to children ways of being that are more open to possibility and difference.

Who cares about the psycho‐social? Masculinities, schooling and the unconscious

This brief article argues for the development of a stronger psycho‐social perspective in the broad field of the sociology of education and, in particular, in studies of masculinities and schooling. The article suggests that such studies have much to gain from an understanding of unconscious fantasy and the mutually constitutive nature of the unconscious and the social. By the same token, it also argues that a psycho‐social perspective has much to gain from ethnographies of the school.

Editors’ introduction to ‘Reflections on the Revolutions of our Time’

The journal editors introduce a new thread of short pieces that will reflect on current political events. The thread begins with two short pieces on Trumpism.

Introduction to special section on Juliet Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Then and now

The editors of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society introduce a special section in which several authors, including Juliet Mitchell, celebrate and reflect on the 1974 publication of Juliet Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism.

In Memoriam: Stuart Hall

This brief in memoriam pays tribute to the influence on psychoanalytically orientated social and cultural inquiry of the work of the great cultural theorist, Stuart Hall (1932–2014).