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Institutional Classed Hierarchy and the Intersectional Re/production of Social Inequalities in Marzipan

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This chapter explores how power relations and the hierarchical structure of Marzipan is implicated in producing raced, classed, sexualized and gendered subjectivities, both discursively and via institutional practices, and how social inequalities are perpetuated on various levels of the institutional structure. First Rédai introduces the rigid and hierarchical secondary education system in Hungary and reflects on the re/production of inequalities in education in post-socialist Central Eastern Europe. Then she analyses discourses and practices which construct hierarchy among teachers and between students and teachers. In the third part she demonstrates how inequality gets constituted intersectionally by the convergence of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. This chapter highlights a so far overlooked aspect of the relations of schooling and sexuality: a direct connection between selective education and sexual knowledge, behaviour and communication.

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Rédai, D. (2019). Institutional Classed Hierarchy and the Intersectional Re/production of Social Inequalities in Marzipan. In: Exploring Sexuality in Schools. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20161-6_4

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