Originally published in 1987. The perspectives, research methods and strategies adopted by researchers and teachers to investigate gender and education have been diverse and contradictory. This book provides an overview of developments and analyses the range of policy responses to the issues of sex inequality as well. Divided into six parts, the first indicates the range of feminist theories conceptualizing gender and provides context for the following parts on equality of opportunity; gender, power and schools; and studies on class, race and gender. The last parts explore how education and training provision in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were shaped by assumptions about masculinity and femininity; and examine patterns of policy making on equal opportunities at teacher, local and national levels.
Preface. Introduction Part 1: Conceptualizing Gender
1. Education for
Equality Eileen M. Byrne
2. Patriarchy and the Universal Oppression of Women:
Feminist Debates Hester Eisenstein
3. Gender and Class: Marxist Feminist
Perspectives on Education Michele Barrett
4. Black Feminism and the
Boundaries of Sisterhood Hazel V. Carby
5. The Sociology of Womens Education
as a Field of Academic Study Sue Middleton Part 2: Equality of Opportunity:
Defining the Issues
6. Sex Differences in Achievement Orientations Barbara G.
Licht and Carol S. Dweck
7. Gender and Curriculum Choice Teresa Grafton,
Henry Miller, Lesley Smith, Martin Vegoda and Richard Whitfield
8. Gender
Bias and Test Norms in Educational Selection Harvey Goldstein
9. The
Construction of Masculine Science Alison Kelly Part 3: Gender, Power and
Schools
10. Education: The Patriarchal Paradigm and the Response to Feminism
Dale Spender
11. Dinosaurs in the Classroom the Hidden Curriculum in
Primary Schools Katherine Clarricoates
12. Sex, Power and Pedagogy Valerie
Walkerdine
13. The Structure of Sexual Relations in School Sue Lees Part 4:
Class, Race and Gender: Structures and Ideologies
14. All the Big Bosses are
Men, All the Secretaries are Females: Schooling Women Office Workers Linda
Valli
15. Resistance and Responses: the Experiences of Black Girls in Britain
Valerie Amos and Pratibha Palmer
16. Gender Relations in Secondary Schooling
Sandra Kessler, Dean Ashenden, Bob Connell and Gary Dowsett
17. From Girls
and Boys to Women and Men: The Social Reproduction of Gender Claire Wallace
Part 5: Gender, Education Policy and Provision
18. Social Class, Education
and Ideals of Femininity in the Nineteenth Century June Purvis
19. Sex
Antagonism in the Teaching Profession: Equal Pay and the Marriage Bar,
1910-39 Alison Oram
20. Gender Divisions, Training and the State Ann Wickham
Part 6: Sex Equality and Education Policy
21. Political Lip-Service or
Radical Reform? Central Government Responses to Sex Equality as a Policy
Issue Madeleine Arnot
22. The Construction of Women and Black Students as
Educational Problems: Re-Evaluating Policy on Gender and Race Jenny
Williams
23. Teachers and Gender Politics Gaby Weiner and Madeleine Arnot
24.
Gender in the House of Policy David L. Kirp, Mark G. Yudof and Marlene Strong
Franks
Madeleine Arnot and Gaby Weiner of the The Open University.
