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Closing the gender gap : postwar education and social change

Title: Closing the gender gap : postwar education and social change / Madeleine Arnot, Miriam David, Gaby Weiner.
Author: Arnot, Madeleine.
Publication: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

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xii, 191 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The education gender gap is closing. Since the 1980s examination results have changed dramatically, as girls have 'caught up' with and, in some cases, overtaken boys. Through an analysis of the postwar transformation in British economic, social and cultural life, this book provides valuable insights into how and why this unprecedented change has taken place."--BOOK JACKET. "Closing the Gender Gap will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-179) and index.

Contents

pt. I. Refashioning Gender Relations. 1. Revisiting Gender in the 1990s. 2. Changing Gender Patterns in Education. 3. Challenging Victorian Values -- pt. 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 -- pt. III. New Generations of Girls and Boys. 7. Schoolgirls and Social Change. 8. Schoolboys and Social Change. 9. Closing the Gender Gap in Education?

ISBN

0745618839
9780745618838
0745618847
9780745618845

LCCN

99025731

OCLC

ocm41086714
41086714
SCSB-8910510

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Princeton University Library