Closing the gender gap : postwar education and social change

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Closing the gender gap : postwar education and social change

Madeleine Arnot, Miriam David, Gaby Weiner

Polity Press, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-179) and index

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Description

Undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in education or gender.

Table of Contents

Preface. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Part I: Refashioning Gender Relations. 1. Revisiting Gender in the 1990s. 2. Changing Gender Patterns in Education. 3. Challenging Victorian Values. Part II: Social Policy and Education Reform. 4. Motherhood and Women's Work in the Welfare State. 5. Schooling, Teachers and Feminism. 6. Markets, Competition and Performance. Part III: New Generations of Girls and Boys. 7. Schoolgirls and Social Change. 8. Schoolboys and Social Change. 9. Closing the Gender Gap in Education?. Authors' Note on Further Reading. References and Bibliography. Index.

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