Education into the 21st Century : Dangerous Terrain for Women? (Paperback)

Part 1: Back to the future? Hopes frustrated or fulfilled? 1. Revisiting the Fin-de-Siecle: The threat of the educated woman Alison Mackinnon 2. 'Why are we standing still?' Reflections from history Inga Elgquist-Saltzman 3. Mapping Canadian women's teaching work: Challenging the stereotypes Alison Prentice Part 2: Feminist strategies for change 4. Education for change: Action research for increased gender equality Hildur Ve 5. Fear of 'disorder'? Resistance to and fear of female advantage Britt-Marie Berge 6. Dis/ease: Discourses in Australian health and physical education Robin Burns 7. Education: A site of desire and threat for Australian girls Victoria Foster 8. Who benefits from schooling? Equality issues in Britain Gaby Weiner with Madeleine Arnot and Miriam David 9. 'Us guys in suits are back': Women, educational work and the market economy in Canada Rebecca Coulter 10. Is it really worthwhile? Women chemists and physicians in Sweden Sylvia Benckert and Else-Marie Staberg 11. Women's education, career and family in China in an intergenerational perspective Grace Mak Part 3: Towards the 21st Century: Constructing and deconstructing girls as a category of concern Lyn Yates 13. On the (Im)possibility of being impertinent, feminist and feminine Kajsa Orhlander 14. Naming male advantage: A feminist theorist looks to the future Joan Eveline