Includes some articles previously published in an issue of Sociology of education. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Gender and education in the welfare state / Julia Wrigley -- Education, gender, and economic development : a cross-national analysis / Aaron Benavot -- Women in education from a Swedish perspective / Ingrid Jönsson -- Post-secondary education of white women in 1900 / Nancy E. Durbin, Lori Kent -- Race and the schooling of young girls / Linda Grant -- Girls and boys together...but mostly apart : gender arrangements in elementary schools / Barrie Thorne -- Responding to differences in the classroom : the politics of knowledge, class, and sexuality / Saundra Gardner, Cynthia Dean, Deo McKaig -- Why does Jane read and write so well? : the anomaly of women's achievement / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- Working-class women's ways of knowing : effects of gender, race, and class / Wendy Luttrell -- Opportunity and performance : a sociological explanation for gender differences in academic mathematics / David P. Baker, Deborah Perkins Jones -- Gender differences in parent involvement in schooling / Annette Lareau -- The educational contest for middle- and working-class women : the reproduction of inequality / Merrilee Krysa Finley.
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