Henri Lefebvre and education (Book review)

Abstract

Feminists have a long history of engaging and recalibrating theory to further the project of gender justice, even in instances when original conceptualizations have marginalized or overlooked the centrality of gender to inequitable social relations. In this book, Sue Middleton continues this project through the work of Henri Lefebvre. While Middleton does not situate her book as specifically feminist and writes for a broad audience of scholars interested in the possibilities of Lefebvre for understanding education, her background in and commitment to feminism is embedded throughout the text. Thus, this is a book that has the potential to offer insights to readers from multiple backgrounds. This includes the growing number of geographers taking up critical studies of education, along with geographers of gender and sexuality working in fields outside of education, but interested in how Lefebvre may be appropriated to undertake feminist work.