A Girl's Education: Schooling and the Formation of Gender, Identities and Future Visions

by Katharine Esson, Rosalina Yuen, Judith Gill

This book argues that educators and the general public have become complacent about girls' education as a consequence of the more recent fuss about problems for boys. After an analysis of persistent disquiet about girls' lifestyles, it uses theories of gender and education to demonstrate that girls are being produced in contradictory ways in current schooling. Many girls develop a sense of themselves through close connection with friendship groups...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137524863
• ISBN13: 9781137524867
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"