Education and Gender Equality

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Gender, the State, and Education
Gender and Education in the Welfare State	p. 1
Education, Gender, and Economic Development: A Cross-National Analysis	p. 25
Women in Education from a Swedish Perspective	p. 49
Post-secondary Education of White Women in 1900	p. 71
Diversity, Social Control, and Resistance in Classrooms
Race and the Schooling of Young Girls	p. 91
Girls and Boys Together ... But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools	p. 115
Responding to Differences in the Classroom: The Politics of Knowledge, Class, and Sexuality	p. 131
Gender and Knowledge
Why Does Jane Read and Write so Well? The Anomaly of Women's Achievement	p. 149
Working-class Women's Ways of Knowing: Effects of Gender, Race, and Class	p. 173
Opportunity and Performance: A Sociological Explanation for Gender Differences in Academic Mathematics	p. 193
Families and Schools
Gender Differences in Parent Involvement in Schooling	p. 207
The Educational Contest for Middle- and Working-class Women: The Reproduction of Inequality	p. 225
Notes on Contributors	p. 249
Index	p. 253
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