If a primary objective of feminism is to expose and challenge the
social relations of power embedded in all spheres of life, then an
exploration of the issues attached to female education is a vital
aspect of such a project. Indeed, 'women and education' is now an
established-and flourishing-domain of study. And as academic
thinking continues to develop, this new title in Routledge's
acclaimed series, Major Themes in Education, meets the need for an
authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject's vast
literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited
by two leading scholars in the field, Women and Education is a
four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge
contributions. Issues affecting women and education cannot be
analysed in territorial isolation; while it is possible in many
parts of the Western world to cite evidence of widening
opportunities, choices, and potential in women's lives, the
gendered nature of educational provision, practice, and thought is
often more starkly apparent in less developed parts of the world.
Consequently, the collection adopts an explicitly international
approach to explore fully the complexities of the educational
experience, its gendered history, and its particular implications
and interpretations in specific societies and locations. The
collection's temporal scope is similarly ambitious. Moreover, Women
and Education is further distinguished by the inclusion of
autobiographical works to capture the experience of education as a
broad societal process, and not simply as formal schooling. Volume
one Space, Place, and Time is a theoretical and historical
framework for the collection. Taken together, the materials
gathered here constitute a sophisticated and versatile toolbox of
ideas for theory-building and research. This volume, in particular,
will be an invaluable tool for researchers and students of feminist
theory and research methods, and for users across the social
sciences concerned with issues of gender. Volume two Pupils,
Students, and Learning brings together key studies in gender and
education. In particular, this volume explores past experiences
through autobiography and life history, and investigates gender
dynamics within schools. Volume three Teachers and Teaching,
meanwhile, focuses on the culture and politics of work. It presents
essential findings into processes and pedagogy and gathers critical
research on women teachers' expectations, their struggles to
achieve equality, and attempts to change practice. The last volume
in the collection Politics and Policies contains a selection of
materials that discuss the history and gendered nature of education
policies. Presenting a range of views, the work gathered in Volume
IV illuminates women's place in the development of educational
traditions, reforms, and theories, and examines their role as
educational policy-makers. With a full index, together with a
comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which
places the collected material in its historical and intellectual
context, Women and Education is an indispensable work of reference.
It will be welcomed as a crucial database permitting rapid access
to less familiar-and sometimes overlooked-texts. It will also be
valued as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource for
researchers and students of education, women's studies, and social
history, as well as for practising teachers and policy-makers.
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