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Education, gender, and anxiety

Title: Education, gender, and anxiety / Jenny Shaw.
Author: Shaw, Jenny, 1943-
Publication: London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis, 1995.

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Description

ix, 166 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Based on literature gathered from North America, Europe and Britain, this text argues for an 'object relations' approach when analysing gender differences in subject choice and polarisation in reading, writing and drawing, and stresses the need to pay close attention to the unconscious processes which school settings mobilise"--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Feminist perspectives on the past and present
[Gender & society]

Uniform Title

Feminist perspectives on the past and present
Gender and society

Subject

Note

Second series statement from jacket.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-160) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction: The Unconscious Curriculum -- Ch. 2. Education, Sociology and Feminism: Themes and Perspectives and Object Relations -- Ch. 3. Anxiety and Defence Mechanisms: Driving Forces -- Ch. 4. Parenting and Teaching: Being Emotionally 'In Loco Parentis' -- Ch. 5. The Unconscious Meanings of Reading -- Ch. 6. Curricula and Transitional Objects -- Ch. 7. Polarization, Subjects and Choice: 'Male Wounds' and 'Crossroads' -- Ch. 8. Classroom Interaction, Gender and Basic Assumptions -- Ch. 9. Fears, Fantasies and Divisions in Single-Sex Schools -- Ch. 10. Conclusions: Gender Divisions in Future.

ISBN

0748401016
9780748401017
0748401024
9780748401024
9780203451120
0203451120

LCCN

95000551

OCLC

ocm32665199
32665199
SCSB-2071768

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library