First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982, and is the fifth such collection to emerge from the annual conference. The conference theme, ‘Race, Class and Gender’, was not only chosen because of its topicality, but also to provide a framework for debate between educational researchers and teachers. The papers focus on the reproduction of gender relations through education and provide important insights into how this process works, how it is resisted in schools and colleges, and the possibilities for radical intervention. This volume includes three teaching bibliographies on gender and education which were not presented at the conference, but were compiled specially for the book.

Contents

Introduction 1. Gender, Class and Education: A Personal View 2. Intersections of Gender and Class: Accommodation and Resistance by Working-Class and Affluent Females to Contradictory Sex-Role Ideologies 3. Gender, Resistance and Power 4. Work, Class and Teaching 5. A Cloud over Co-Education: An Analysis of the Forms of Transmission of Class and Gender Relations 6. The Conservative School? Sex Roles at Home, at Work and at School 7. Gender, Patriarchy and Class in the Popular Education of Women 8. Women and Teaching: A Semi-Detached Sociology of a Semi-Profession 9. Sex, Education and Social Policy: A New Moral Economy? 10. Social Theory, Social Relations and Education 11. Gender, Class and Education: A Teaching Bibliography of European Studies 12. Gender, Class and Education: A Teaching Bibliography of Australian and New Zealand Studies 13. Gender, Class and Education: A Teaching Bibliography of American Studies