| Description |
ix, 268 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Gender and education in the welfare state / Julia Wrigley -- Education, gender, and economic development : a cross-national analysis / Aaron Benavot -- Women in education from a Swedish perspective / Ingrid Jönsson -- Post-secondary education of white women in 1900 / Nancy E. Durbin, Lori Kent -- Race and the schooling of young girls / Linda Grant -- Girls and boys together...but mostly apart : gender arrangements in elementary schools / Barrie Thorne -- Responding to differences in the classroom : the politics of knowledge, class, and sexuality / Saundra Gardner, Cynthia Dean, Deo McKaig -- Why does Jane read and write so well? : the anomaly of women's achievement / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- Working-class women's ways of knowing : effects of gender, race, and class / Wendy Luttrell -- Opportunity and performance : a sociological explanation for gender differences in academic mathematics / David P. Baker, Deborah Perkins Jones -- Gender differences in parent involvement in schooling / Annette Lareau -- The educational contest for middle- and working-class women : the reproduction of inequality / Merrilee Krysa Finley |
| Summary |
Education and Gender Equality helps build a new feminist framework for analyzing education. With its twelve chapters, the book has a wide scope, containing comparative historical accounts of the development of women's education, challenging chapters on girls' academic achievement compared with that of boys, and ethnographic material on the interplay of race and class in shaping women's schooling. Other chapters focus on feminist pedagogy, gender differences in parents' involvement in their children's schooling, and working-class women's transfer of educational ambitions from themselves to their children. The authors explore the pervasive gender inequalities found in education and the resistance of women and girls to subordination. They consider how gender inequalities in education connect with still broader social inequalities of class and power. Theoretically informed and rich in detail, the chapters rely on a variety of methods. There are ethnographic studies, quantitative historical and contemporary studies, and reports based on participant observation. The range of methods and topics reflects the vigor and scope of feminist research in education. By pulling together some of the best of this work, the hook shows what has been done and points directions for further research |
| Analysis |
Women Education Equality |
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Feminist research |
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Sex segregation |
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Sweden |
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United States |
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Women Education Equality |
| Notes |
Includes some articles previously published in an issue of Sociology of education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Education and state.
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Education -- Parent participation.
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Educational equalization.
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Sex discrimination in education.
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Women in education.
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| Author |
Wrigley, Julia, 1948-
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| LC no. |
91024814 |
| ISBN |
1850009457 |
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1850009465 (paperback) |
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