Title:	Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia, Volumes I & II
Authors:	Bank, Barbara J. Sara Delamont Catherine Marshal
Keywords:	Educational equalization
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Praeger
Description:	The aim of this encyclopedia is to reflect the current state of scholarship and research on gender and education. Although there have been long-standing interests in and debates about the suitability of various amounts and types of education for men and women, the rapid development of research on gender and education had its beginnings in the 1960s and 1970s. Stimulated by the social movements of that period, particularly by what we now call second-wave feminism, much of this research focused on girls whose education many viewed as inferior to that of boys. Indeed, had this encyclopedia appeared in the 1980s or 1990s, its title probably would have been Women and Education. Already in those decades, however, theoretical developments within feminism and education, as well as debates about the “boy problem,” were turning scholarly attention from women to the broader, more complex issues surrounding the many social meanings of gender and the many ways gender is embedded in educational practices and in the institutional structures of schooling. It is these broader, more complex issues that are illuminated by this encyclopedia.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/16548
ISBN:	978–0–313–33343–9
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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