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Closing the Gender Gap: Post War Education and Social Change

Closing the Gender Gap: Post War Education and Social Change

by Miriam David (Author), Madeleine Arnot (Author), Gaby Weiner (Author), Madeleine Arnot (Author), Gaby Weiner (Author), Miriam David (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

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

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 25 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 0745618847
ISBN 13: 9780745618845

Media Reviews
This book is an excellent read and I have no doubt that it will become a standard text in the sociology of education. It represents the first attempt at explaining the closing gender gap (if not the emergence of a new one!) in terms of the wider social, political, cultural and economic changes in the 1980s and 1990s. Phillip Brown, School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff There are 3 main reasons why this book is worth reading many times and from different perspectives. The first is that it brings together the long-term scholarship of three of England's leading feminist scholars in education. The second is that it is an important knowledge-based intervention in an educational debate which has claimed a high profile in media and education policy circles over the 1990s and into the 2000s. The third reason is that the book's lines of argument are conceptually and empircally rich and its conclusions provocative. British Educational Research Journal
Author Bio
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? University, Sweden.