Research Profile
Prof Debbie Epstein
Selected Publications
Books

Morrell, R., Epstein, D., Unterhalter, E., Bhana, D. and Moletsane, R. (2009) Towards Equality: Gender in South African Schools during the HIV and AIDS Epidemic. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

Boden, R., Epstein, D. and Kenway, J. (2006) The Academic’s Support Kit London: Sage, a boxed set of six volumes comprising:
-Building your Academic Career
-Getting Started on Research
-Writing for Publication
-Teaching and Supervision
-Winning and Managing Research Funds
-Building Networks

Epstein, D., O’Flynn, S. and Telford, D. (2003) Silenced Sexualities in Schools and Universities Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books

Epstein, D. and Johnson, R. (1998) Schooling Sexualities. Buckingham, Open University Press. (translated into Spanish 2000)

Epstein, D. (1993) Changing Classroom Cultures: Anti-racism, Politics and Schools. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
Epstein, D. and Sealey, A. (1990) "Where it Really Matters..." Developing Anti-Racist Education in Predominantly White Primary Schools. Birmingham: Development Education Centre.
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
Forthcoming: Morrell, R., Epstein, D. & Moletsane, R. (forthcoming) Doubts, Dilemmas and Decisions: Towards Ethical Research on Gender and Schooling in South Africa. Qualitative Research
Epstein, D., Fahey, J. & Kenway, J. (in press) Multi-sited global ethnography and travelling biography: gendered journeys. Qualitative Studies in Education
Epstein, D. & Steinberg, D.L. (2011) The Bourne Tragedsy: Lost Subjects of the Bioconvergent Age. MediaTropes eJournal. III(1): 89-112.
Boden, R. & Epstein, D. (2011), A flat earth society? Imagining academic freedom. The Sociological Review, 59: 476–495. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02014.x
Epstein, D., Moreau, M-P. & Mendick, H. (2010) ‘Imagining the mathematician: young people talking about popular representations of maths’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 31(1): 45-60
Moreau, M.-P., Mendick, H. & Epstein, D. (2010) Constructions of Mathematicians in Popular Culture and Learners’ Narratives: A study of mathematical and non-mathematical subjectivities, Cambridge Journal of Education. 40(1): 25-38
Boden, R., Epstein, D. & Latimer, J. (2009) Accounting for Ethos or Programmes for Conduct? The brave new world of Research Ethics Committees. Sociological Review. 57(4): 727-49
Morrell, R., & Epstein, D. (2008) Material effects: Race, class and masculinities among South African teachers. Darkmatter Journal, 2, Special issue: Race/Matter. Materialism and the politics of racialization (eds. Papadopoulos, D., & Sharma, S.).
Boden, R. & Epstein, D. (2006) Managing the research imagination? Globalisation and research in higher education. Globalisation, Societies and Education. 4(2): 223-36
Epstein, D & Boden, R. (2006) Democratising the research imagination: globalising knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Globalisation, Societies and Education. 4(2): 249-60
O’Flynn, S & Epstein, D. (2005) ‘Standardising Sexuality: Embodied knowledge, achievement and ‘standards’, Social Semiotics. 15(2): 183-208
Epstein, D, Morrell, R, Moletsane, R & Unterhalter, E. (2004) Interventions, Activism, Identities: Gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa. Transformation 54: 1-16
Unterhalter, E, Epstein, D, Morrell, R & Moletsane, R. (2004) "Be Yourself!" Gender, Sexuality and Class in KwaZulu Natal. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. Special issue on Social Class and Education. 12(1): 53-72
Epstein, D & Steinberg, D.L. (2003) Life in the Bleep-Cycle: Inventing Id-TV on the Jerry Springer Show. Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 25(3): 90-114
Unterhalter, E, Morrell, R, Moletsane, R & Epstein, D. (2002) Instituting Gender Equality in Schools: Working in an HIV/AIDS Environment. Perspectives in Education. 20(2): 37-53
Abdool Karim, Q, Epstein, D, Moletsane, R, Morrell, R & Unterhalter, E. (2002) ‘The School Setting: Opportunities for Integrating Gender Equality and HIV Risk Reduction Interventions’. Agenda. Special issue: What Kind of Difference can we Make: Education, Youth and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. 53: 11-21
Morrell, R, Moletsane, R, Epstein, D & Unterhalter, E. (2001) ‘Missing the Message: HIV/AIDS Interventions and Learners in South African Schools’. Canadian Women’s Studies. Special Issue: Women and HIV/AIDS. 21(2): 90-96
Epstein, D, Kehily, MJ, Mac an Ghaill, M. & Redman, P. (2001) Boys and Girls Come Out to Play: Making Masculinities and Femininities in Primary Playgrounds. Men and Masculinities. Special Issue: Disciplining and Punishing Masculinities. 4(2): 158-72
Edited Books
Epstein, D. & Sears, J. T. (1999) A Dangerous Knowing: Sexuality, Pedagogy and Popular Culture. London: Cassell,
Epstein, D., Elwood, J., Hey, V. & Maw, J. (1998) Failing Boys? Issues in Gender and Education. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Epstein, D., Johnson, R. & Steinberg, D.L. (1997) Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of Heterosexuality. London: Cassell.
Canaan, J.E. & Epstein, D. (1997) A Question of Discipline: Pedagogy Power and the Teaching of Cultural Studies. Boulder, CO: Westview. (translated into Spanish, 1998)
Epstein, D. (1994) Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Selected Book Chapters
Renold, E. & Epstein, D. (2010): Sexualities, Schooling and Schizoid Agendas, in Martinsson, L. and Reimers, E. (eds). Norm-Struggles: Sexualities in Contentions. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Mendick, H., Moreau, M.-P. & Epstein, D. (2009) Special cases: neoliberalism, choice and mathematics education, in L. Black, H. Mendick & Y. Solomon (Eds) Mathematical Relationships: identities & participation. New York: Routledge
Moreau, M.-P., Mendick, H. & Epstein, D. (2009) Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture, in E. Watson (Ed) Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity. Jefferson: McFarland Publishing
Epstein, D. & Johnson, R. (2008) Walking the Talk: Young People Making Identities, in Atkinson, E. and de Palma, R. (eds) Invisible Boundaries: Sexualities in Primary Schools. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books
Epstein, D., Hewitt, R., Leonard, D., Mauthner, M. & Watkins, C. (2007) Silencing Policies or How (not) to make your school homophobic, in van Dijk, L and van Driel, B. (eds) Challenging Homophobia: Teaching about Sexual Diversity. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books
Ringrose, J & Epstein, D. (2007) Feminism, Women’s Studies, Gender and Education, in Robinson, V. and Richardson, D. (eds) Introducing Women’s Studies (3rd edition). London: Palgrave
Mellor, D.J. and Epstein, D (2006) Appropriate Behaviour? Sexualities, Schooling and Heterogender, in Skelton, C, Francis, B and Smulyan, L. (eds) Handbook for Gender and Education. London: Taylor and Francis
Epstein, D. (2006) Sex Education, in Ritzer, G. (ed) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (with an abbreviated version in the concise version of the encyclopaedia)
