1st Edition

Education and Gender Equality

Edited By Julia Wrigley Copyright 1992
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1992. This book grew out of a special issue of the journal Sociology of Education. There is no simple relation between education and gender equality. As with social class relations, schools both reinforce subordination and create new possibilities for liberation, and these contradictions occur at every level and in every aspect of education. Schools are sites of pervasive gender... Read more
Preface, Julia Wrigley, Section 1 Gender, the State, and Education, Section 2 Diversity, Social Control, and Resistance in Classrooms, Section 3 Gender and Knowledge, Section 4 Families and Schools, Notes on Contributors, Index

Biography

Julia Wrigley