Anna Hickey-Moody Knihy

Focusing on contemporary masculinity, the book employs Deleuze's theories to explore its dynamics and impacts. It pragmatically organizes discussions around key Deleuzian concepts, presenting case studies from popular culture and various disciplines influenced by Deleuze. The author highlights how concepts like affect and assemblage enhance the foundational idea of performativity in gender studies. By analyzing Deleuze and Guattari's work on the psychoanalytic boy, particularly through Little Hans, the author reexamines young masculinity's politics, informed by her own fieldwork.

This book examines the university experiences of first-in-family university students, and how these students’ decisions to return to education impact upon their family members and significant others. While it is well known that parental educational background has a substantial impact on the educational levels of family and dependents, it is unclear how attending university as a first-in-family student translates into the family and community of the learner. With the continuing requirements for higher education institutions to increase the participation of students from a range of diverse backgrounds and educational biographies, this is a major gap in understanding that needs to be addressed. Exploring how this university participation is understood at an individual, familial and community level, this book provides valuable insights into how best to support different student requirements. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of education and sociology, as well as policy-makers in education and diversity initiatives.

Faith stories is an investigation of faith and belief systems in Australia and England. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, focus groups for adults and arts- based workshops for their children, Hickey-Moody takes a community-based approach to examining belonging, attachment, faith and belief. -- .