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In this title, originally published in 1989, Sara Delamont traces the history of women's education and the elites it produces. She examines class and gender divisions in the structure and contest of education in Britain and the USA from 1850 to 1989.
List of contents
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.
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Sara Delamont
Summary
In this title, originally published in 1989, Sara Delamont traces the history of women's education and the elites it produces. She examines class and gender divisions in the structure and contest of education in Britain and the USA from 1850 to 1989.
