Preface
Sources
Introduction
PART 1: HISTORY OF EDUCATION POLICY
1. June Puruis: Women and Education: A Historical Account, 1800-1914
2. D.W. Dean: Education for Moral Improvement, Domesticity and Social Cohesion: The Labour Government, 1945-1951
3. Rosemary Deem: State Policy and Ideology in the Education of Women, 1944-1980
4. Margaret Littlewood: Makers of Men
5. Miriam E. David: The Education Policy Context: The Idea of 'Parentocracy', 1976-1992
6. Lindsay Paterson: Social Origins of Under-achievement Among School-leavers
7. Elizabeth Edwards: Educational Institutions or Extended Families? Women's Colleges in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
PART 2: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY POLICIES
8. Jenny Arends and Monique Volman: Equal Opportunities in Education in the Netherlands and the Policy of the ILEA
9. Sheila Miles and Chris Middleton: Girls' Education in the Balance: The ERA and Inequality
10. Sue Middleton: Women, Equality and Equity in Liberal Educational Policies, 1945-1988: A Feminist Critique
11. Madeleine Arnot: Feminism, Education and the New Right
12. Heidi Mirza: The Myth of Underachievement
13. Henry Daniels, Val Hey, Diana Leonard and Marjorie Smith: Gendered Practice in Special Educational Needs
PART 3: POLICY IN PRACTICE
14. Patricia Broadfoot and Marilyn Osborn, with M. Gilly and A. Paillet: What Professional Responsibility Means to Teachers: National Contexts and Classroom Constants
15. Iram Siraj-Blatchford: Racialized and Gendered Discourses in Teacher Education
16. Susan Halford: Feminist Change in a Patriarchal Organization: Women's Initiatives in Local Government
17. Rachel Thomson: Unholy Alliances: The Recent Politics of Sex Education