This is a remarkable book. It puts new feminist materialist thought to work in expanding our thinking of gender, sexuality and schooling. By examining the school ball-girl, the book charts new directions in thinking about what comes to matter in the material-affective production of bodies, spaces, ideas, feelings, imaginations and much more. Toni Ingram provides an insightful account of the ongoing entanglements of the human and more-than-human forces in understanding the school ball-girl and does so in a highly engaging way that is a delight to read.

Deevia Bhana, Professor and DSI/NRF South African Research Chair, Gender and Childhood Sexuality School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

This book is the first to conceptualise the school-ball as a vibrant assemblage of material becomings and to offer new possibilities for imagining the ball-girl. It is a must read for those interested in Girlhood, femininities and feminist new materialisms.

Louisa Allen, Professor of Education, University of Auckand, New Zealand