Closing the Gender Gap

Postwar Education and Social Change
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1883-8
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnot, Madeleine

David, Miriam E.

Weiner, Gaby

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Madeleine Arnot is Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College.

Miriam David is Visiting Professorial Fellow at the London University Institute of Education.

Gaby Weiner is Professor of Teacher Education and Research Ume? University, Sweden.