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Title Education into the 21st century : dangerous terrain for women? / Alison Mackinnon, Inga Elgqvist-Saltzman, Alison Prentice, editors
Published London ; Bristol, PA : Falmer Press, 1998

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Description viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Contents I. Back to the future? : hopes frustrated or fulfilled? Revisiting the fin de siècle : the threat of the educated woman / Alison Mackinnon -- "Why are we standing still?" : reflections from history / Inga Elgqvist-Saltzmann -- Mapping Canadian women's teaching work : challenging the stereotypes / Alison Prentice. II. Feminist strategies for change. Education for change : action research for increased gender equality / Hildur Ve -- Fear of "disorder"? : resistance to and fear of female advantage / Britt-Marie Berge -- Dis/ease : discourses in Australian health and physical education / Robin Burns -- Education : a site of desire and threat for Australian girls / Victoria Foster -- Who benefits from schooling? : equality issues in Britain / Gaby Weiner with Madeleine Arnot and Miriam David -- "Us guys in suits are back" : women, educational work and the market economy in Canada / Rebecca Priegert Coulter -- Is it really worthwhile? : women chemists and physicists in Sweden / Sylvia Benckert and Else-Marie Staberg -- Women's education, career and family in China in an intergenerational perspective / Grace Mak -- Doppler effects : female frequencies in higher education / Kerstin W. Shands. III. Towards the 21st century. Constructing and deconstructing "girls" as a category of concern / Lyn Yates -- On the (im)possibility of being impertinent, contentious, feminist and feminine / Kajsa Ohrlander -- Naming male advantage : a feminist theorist looks to the future / Joan Eveline
Notes A selection of papers from a meeting of over 30 feminist educators and theorists held in northern Sweden in the spring of 1995
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Donated by Professor Ian Davey
Subject Feminism and education -- Congresses.
Feminism and education.
Women -- Education -- Congresses.
Women -- Education.
Feminism.
Women -- education.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Elgqvist-Saltzman, Inga, 1929-
Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-
Prentice, Alison L.
LC no. 98203730
ISBN 0750706562
0750706570
Other Titles Education into the twenty-first century