Closing the Gender Gap Postwar Education and Social Change

Name: Closing the Gender Gap Postwar Education and Social Change
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ISBN: 9780745618845

ISBN-10: 0745618847

ISBN-13: 9780745618845

Edition: 1999

Authors: Madeleine. Arnot, Miriam E. David, Gaby Weiner

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The education gender gap is closing. Since the 1980s examination results have changed dramatically, as girls have "caught up" and, in some cases, overtaken boys. Through an analysis of the postwar transformation in British economic, social and cultural life, this important book provides valuable insights into how and why this unprecedented change has taken place.In particular, the book focuses on the welfare state and the education reforms under Margaret Thatcher which encouraged this momentum for change despite her personal efforts to re-instil Victorian educational values. These reforms, the authors argue, coupled with the women's movement, re-shaped girls' and boys' identities and…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 11/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations and Acronyms



Refashioning Gender Relations



Revisiting Gender in the 1990s



Changing Gender Patterns in Education



Challenging Victorian Values



Social Policy and Education Reform



Motherhood and Women's Work in the Welfare State



Schooling, Teachers and Feminism



Markets, Competition and Performance



New Generations of Girls and Boys



Schoolgirls and Social Change



Schoolboys and Social Change



Closing the Gender Gap in Education?


Authors' Note on Further Reading


References and Bibliography


Index