The Sage handbook of gender and education
By: edited by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis, and Lisa Smulyan.
Contributors: Skelton, Christine.; Francis, Becky.; Smulyan, Lisa.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781412907927
Subjects: Sex differences in education; Feminism and education; Sex discrimination in education; Gender identity in education
Other titles: Gender and education; Honor With Books Program.
Notes: "This book is given by Bob & Cheryl Boies in honor of our daughter Jennafer Boies Friedrichsen Class of 1995"--Bookplate.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Christine Skelton, Becky Francis, and Lisa Smulyan; title: Section 1. Gender theory and methodology; title: 1. The nature of gender / Becky Francis; title: 2. Understanding men : gender sociology and the new international research on masculinities / R.W. Connell; title: 3. Femininities : reclassifying upward mobility and the neo-liberal subject / Valerie Walkerdine and Jessica Ringrose; title: 4. Gender, theory and social thought : illuminating moments and critical impasses / Jo-Anne Dillabough; title: 5. Gender and methodology / Catherine Marshall and Michelle D. Young; title: 6. Out of the ruins : feminist pedagogy in recovery / Gaby Weiner; title: 7. Gender, education and development / Elaine Unterhalter; title: 8. Gender and movement in social policy / Meg Maguire; title: Section 2. Gender and the educational sectors; title: 9. Constructing gender in early-years education / Glenda MacNaughton; title: 10. Boys and girls in the elementary school / Christine Skelton; title: 11. Masculinities and femininities and secondary schooling / Kevin G. Davison and Blye W. Frank; title: 12. Gender equity in post-secondary education / Carole Leathwood; title: 13. Gender and higher education / Sara Delamont; title: 14. Single-sex schooling / Diana Leonard; title: Section 3. Gender and school subjects; title: 15. Nature, neglect and nuance : changing accounts of sex, gender and mathematics / Jo Boaler and Tesha Sengupta-Irving; title: 16. Engaging girls in science / Angela Calabrese Barton and Nancy Brickhouse; title: 17. Gender and literacy / Bronwyn Davies and Sue Saltmarsh; title: 18. 'Sex' education : subjugated discourses and adolescents' voices / Bagele Chilisa; title: 19. Gender issues in testing and assessment / Jannette Elwood; title: 20. Gender and citizenship / Tuula Gordon; title: 21. Gender and modern language education / Linda M. von Hoene; title: 22. Gender and technology : what the research tells us / Jo Sanders; title: Section 4. Gender, identity and educational sites; title: 23. Room at the table : racial and gendered realities in the schooling of black children / Janie Victoria Ward and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood; title: 24. Compounding inequalities : gender and class in education / Diane Reay; title: 25. The 'right' way to educate boys : interrogating the politics of boys' education in Australia / Wayne Martino; title: 26. Constructing femininity/constructing femininities / Carrie Paechter; title: 27. Appropriate behavior? : sexualities, schooling and hetero-gender / David James Mellor and Debbie Epstein; title: 28. Achieving equality : disability and gender / Michael L. Wehmeyer and Harilyn Rousso; title: 29. Gender voices in the classroom / Madeleine Arnot; title: Section 5. Working in schools and colleges; title: 30. School culture and gender / Fengshu Liu; title: 31. Gendered classroom experiences / Emma Renold; title: 32. Women in teaching : participation, power and possibility / Jane Gaskell and Ann L. Mullen; title: 33. Constructing teaching identities / Lisa Smulyan; title: 34. Women working in academe : approach with care / Sandra Acker and Michelle Webber; title: 35. Gender and educational management / Charol Shakeshaft.