Male Underachievement in High School Education: In Jamaica, Barbados, and St Vincent and the Grenadines

by Odette Parry

Male Underachievement in High School Education offers another side to the popular theory of the marginalized Caribbean male by challenging the assumption that boys fail simply because girls achieve. The distinction is in fact a subtler one. Parry broadens the scope of this study to consider the historical context of gender relationships, the development of gender identities, and features of class division as significant factors in determining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 976812573X
• ISBN13: 9789768125736
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Canoe Press (IL)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"