Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Abstract; References; Feminism(s) Reconceptualising Histories; 2 Feminism and the Development of Early Childhood Education in Australia; Abstract; Introduction; Maternalism and the Early Childhood Movement in Late Nineteenth Century; Training of Preschool Teachers; A New Education?; A New Education for All Citizens?; Disabling Divisions; Second Wave Feminism in Australia; Conclusion; References; 3 The Didgeridoo, an Instrument of Oppression or Decolonisation?; Abstract; Introduction

The Didgeridoo Within an Indigenous Specific Early Childhood SpaceRamifications for Daring Girls and the Didgeridoo; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Celebrating Pioneering and Contemporary Feminist Approaches to Studying Gender in Early Childhood; Abstract; Introduction; Feminist Challenges to Biological Determinist Discourses in Sex Role Theory: The Rise of Socialization in Gender Differences; Children's Subjectivity and Agency-From Gender Sex Role Theory and Socialization to Feminist Post-structuralism; Feminism and Queer Theory: The Relationship Between Gender and Sexuality

What Does Postfeminism Mean for Understanding Gender in Early Childhood?Posthumanist and New Materialist Feminist Approaches for the Study of Gender in Early Childhood; Implications for Early Childhood Education; References; 5 Black Feminist Thought in Early Childhood Studies: (Re)Centering Marginalized Feminist Perspectives; Abstract; Introduction; Why Black Feminist Thought?; Black Feminist Perspectives; Black Feminist Thought; Black Feminist Thought and Early Childhood Studies; Expression of Lived Experiences; Theorizing Power; Addressing Systemic (Re)Productions of Power

Black Feminist ActivismBlack Feminist Thought as a Pedagogical Tool for Teacher Education; Black Feminist Thought as Essential to Early Childhood Studies; References; Feminism(s) Reconceptualising Institutions; 6 The Entangled Enlivening of Being: Feminist Research Strategies in the Early Years; Abstract; Introduction; Diffraction; Bergson's Lines of Ascent and Descent; Territorializing Movements or Lines of Descent; Deterritorializing Movements; Emergent Listening; Stories from Trollet; Conclusion; References

7 Enhancing Feminism and Childhoods in Kenya Through Stronger Education Policy, Access, and ActionAbstract; Introduction; Children's Rights in Kenya and the Roles of the Girl Child Network; Kenyan Education Policies and "Education for All"; Gender Issues: Economic and Social Marginalization; Girl Child Network's Roles in Advocacy and Legislation; Conclusions and Future Challenges; References; 8 What's Wrong with Equality? Developing a Critical Conceptual Understanding of Equality of Condition in Early Childhood Care and Education; Abstract; Introduction; Equality of Condition