Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; The Demands of Inclusion; Using Poststructuralism; Book Structure and Content; 2 Unpacking and Reframing 'Bullying'; The Essentialist, Traditional and Dominant Assumptions; Researching Bullying: Essentialist Underpinnings; Essentialist Understandings: Fundamental Identities and Roles; Direct or Indirect: Judging Involvement and Seriousness; Foucault, Critical Theory, Feminism and Poststructural Lenses; Social-Ecological Models; Foucauldian Analysis: Bullying as Discursive Practice.

3 Gender RegulationRe-imagining the Bullying Discourse: Gender 'Regulation'; Discourse, Subjectivity, Identity and Power: Definitions and Applications; Discourse; Subjectivity and Identity; Power; Discipline, Surveillance and Regulation: Mechanisms of Power; Disciplinary Power and Surveillance; Regulation; A Feminist Poststructuralist Perspective of Gender; Performativity and Intelligibility: Butler's Heterosexual Matrix; Performance, Popularity and Hierarchy: The Heterosexual Matrix in Schools; Gender Performance and Regulation in Youth Peer Groups: Becoming Popular.

Performance and HierarchyFocusing on the Secondary School and 'Adolescence'; School Processes: Institutional Affirmation of Compulsory Heterosexuality; Heterosexism, Heteronormativity and Gender Within 'Anti-bullying' Policies; Teacher (Non) Interventions in Gendered and Homophobic Harassment; 'Just Joking'; Blaming the Victim; 'That's So Gay': The Extent of Homophobic Language; Methodology; Foucauldian Discourse Analysis; Data 'Collaboration' and the Role of the Researcher; Research Design; Participation Structure; Focus Group and Interviews: Approaches and Strategies.

Semi-structured InterviewsResearcher Positioning; Foucauldian Discourse Analysis: Data Analysis Procedure; Stage 1: Discursive Constructions; Stage 2: Discourses; Stage 3: Action Orientation; Stage 4: Positioning; Stage 5: Practice; Stage 6: Subjectivity; 4 Head Teacher and Principal Realities; Chapter Structure and Discursive Inclusions; Bullying; Discursive Construction: 'Bullying'; Bullying Between Boys: 'A whole pack of roosters romping about the room'; Bullying between Girls: 'The girls are more sneaky about it'; Bullying between Girls and Boys: 'Name calling rubbish'

Discourses: 'Bullying'Essentialism; Action Orientation; Positioning; Practice; Subjectivity; The Bully/Victim Binary; Action Orientation; Positioning; Practice; Subjectivity; Normative Cruelties; Action Orientation; Positioning; Practice; Subjectivity; Intervention and Response to Bullying; Discursive Construction: Intervention and Response to Bullying; Discourses: Intervention and Response to Bullying; External Influences; Action Orientation; Positioning; Practice; Subjectivity; Hierarchy of Seriousness; Action Orientation; Positioning; Practice; Subjectivity; Gender-Based Bullying.