Knowledgeable Women : Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites (Paperback)

Preface and Acknowledgements.  Part I: Introductory Themes  1. Introduction: Towards a Structuralist Sociology of Education  2. Cultural Capital and Muted Groups: the Theoretical Perspective of the Volume  3. Lessons from St Luke's: Women and Cultural Reproduction  Part II: The Mountains of Inertia and Prejudice: a Structuralist Discussion of the Period 1845-1944  4. Chaperons, Gloves, and Cycling in Skirts: Strategies Against Pollution in Women's Education  5. Classics, Chemistry, and Cultural Capital  6. Domesticity or Delilahism? The Debates over Womanliness and Education  Part III: Exploring Structuralist Sociology of Education: a Critique of Sociological Accounts for the Period 1945-1988  7. A Country Fit for Heroines? Schooling and Teaching 1945-1988  8. Excluded from the Elite? Women and Top Jobs 1945-1985  9. Mobile or Nubile? Social Stratification, Mobility, Marriage, and Education  10. Professions and Powerlessness: the Inadequacy of the Sociology and the Chauvinism of the Professionals  Part IV: Conclusions  11. The Old Middle Class Strikes Back.  Bibliography.  Author Index.  Subject Index.