Closing the Gender Gap Postwar Education and Social Change

by Arnot, Madeleine; David, Miriam E.; Weiner, Gaby

• ISBN13: 9780745618838
• ISBN10: 0745618839
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-22
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

Undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in education or gender.

Author Biography

Madeleine Arnot is Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College.

Miriam David is Visiting Professorial Fellow at the London University Institute of Education.

Gaby Weiner is Professor of Teacher Education and Research Ume+Ñ University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations and Acronyms	xi
Part I Refashioning Gender Relations	1	(48)
Revisiting Gender in the 1990s	3	(9)
Conservative education reforms	5	(2)
The new gender agenda	7	(2)
Reflections	9	(3)
Changing Gender Patterns in Education	12	(20)
Closing the gender gap in academic performance	14	(6)
Gender legacies	20	(3)
Gender values, gender cultures	23	(2)
Equal opportunities policy-making	25	(3)
Which girls and which boys?	28	(2)
Reflections	30	(2)
Challenging Victorian Values	32	(17)
Victorian values and the cult of female domesticity	33	(4)
Women's rights	37	(2)
Meritocracy	39	(3)
Margaret Thatcher and the cult of individualism	42	(5)
Reflections	47	(2)
Part II Social Policy and Education Reform	49	(54)
Motherhood and Women's Work in the Welfare State	51	(15)
The meritocratic era	52	(2)
Ideologies about maternity and motherhood	54	(3)
Mothers on the move	57	(1)
Women's work: expansion but not emancipation	58	(3)
The era of feminist politics	61	(2)
Women's liberation: politicizing the personal	63	(1)
Reflections	64	(2)
Schooling, Teachers and Feminism	66	(17)
Feminist voluntarism and the social democratic era	68	(4)
Teachers and social justice	72	(3)
Liberal educational feminism	75	(1)
Critical educational feminisms	76	(1)
Voluntarism in practice	77	(5)
Reflections	82	(1)
Markets, Competition and Performance	83	(20)
Economic restructuring and the welfare state	86	(4)
Demonizing the family	90	(4)
Feminism and New Right educational reforms	94	(3)
Feminism, managerialism and performance	97	(3)
Reflections	100	(3)
Part III New Generations of Girls and Boys	103	(54)
Schoolgirls and Social Change	105	(20)
The female graduate elite	108	(5)
Coeducation for the majority	113	(2)
Black female autonomy and upward mobility	115	(3)
Unromantic realism and the working-class girl	118	(4)
Reflections	122	(3)
Schoolboys and Social Change	125	(25)
The romanticization of domesticity	126	(1)
The male as breadwinner	127	(3)
Male patterns of educational inequality	130	(2)
Gentry masculinity and the expert	132	(3)
Masculinities and the academically able boy	135	(5)
New boys: getting on and getting out	140	(2)
Male sexuality as class resistance	142	(5)
Routine violence in schools	147	(1)
Reflections	148	(2)
Closing the Gender Gap in Education?	150	(7)
Authors' Note on Further Reading	157	(2)
References and Bibliography	159	(21)
Index	180