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- catalog abstract ""The education gender gap is closing. Since the 1980s examination results have changed dramatically, as girls have 'caught up' with and, in some cases, overtaken boys. Through an analysis of the postwar transformation in British economic, social and cultural life, this book provides valuable insights into how and why this unprecedented change has taken place."--BOOK JACKET. "Closing the Gender Gap will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11214709.
- catalog contributor b11214710.
- catalog contributor b11214711.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""The education gender gap is closing. Since the 1980s examination results have changed dramatically, as girls have 'caught up' with and, in some cases, overtaken boys. Through an analysis of the postwar transformation in British economic, social and cultural life, this book provides valuable insights into how and why this unprecedented change has taken place."--BOOK JACKET. "Closing the Gender Gap will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Refashioning Gender Relations. 1. Revisiting Gender in the 1990s. 2. Changing Gender Patterns in Education. 3. Challenging Victorian Values -- pt. II. Social Policy and Education Reform. 4. Motherhood and Women's Work in the Welfare State. 5. Schooling, Teachers and Feminism. 6. Markets, Competition and Performance -- pt. III. New Generations of Girls and Boys. 7. Schoolgirls and Social Change. 8. Schoolboys and Social Change. 9. Closing the Gender Gap in Education?".
- catalog extent "xii, 191 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0745618839".
- catalog identifier "0745618847 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "370/.82/0941 21".
- catalog subject "Feminism and education Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "LC212.93.G7 A76 1999".
- catalog subject "Sex differences in education Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Sex discrimination in education Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Women Education Great Britain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Refashioning Gender Relations. 1. Revisiting Gender in the 1990s. 2. Changing Gender Patterns in Education. 3. Challenging Victorian Values -- pt. II. Social Policy and Education Reform. 4. Motherhood and Women's Work in the Welfare State. 5. Schooling, Teachers and Feminism. 6. Markets, Competition and Performance -- pt. III. New Generations of Girls and Boys. 7. Schoolgirls and Social Change. 8. Schoolboys and Social Change. 9. Closing the Gender Gap in Education?".
- catalog title "Closing the gender gap : post-war education and social change / Madeleine Arnot, Miriam David, Gaby Weiner.".
- catalog type "text".