The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education brings together leading scholars on gender and education to provide an up-to-date and broad-ranging guide to the field. It is a comprehensive overview of different theoretical positions on equity issues in schools.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Review Panel
• List of Contributors
• Introduction - Christine Skelton, Becky Francis and Lisa Smulyan
• Section 1 Gender Theory and Methodology
• The Nature of Gender - Becky Francis
• Understanding Men: Gender Sociology and the New International Research on Masculinities - R. W. Connell
• Femininities: Reclassifying Upward Mobility and the Neo-Liberal Subject - Valerie Walkerdine and Jessica Ringrose
• Gender, Theory and Social Thought: Iluminating Moments and Critical Impasses - Jo-Anne Dillabough
• Gender and Methodology - Catherine Marshall and Michelle D. Young
• Out of the Ruins: Feminist Pedagogy in Recovery - Gaby Weiner
• Gender, Education and Development - Elaine Unterhalter
• Gender and Movement in Social Policy - Meg Maguire
• Section 2 Gender and the Educational Sectors
• Constructing Gender in Early-Years Education - Glenda MacNaughton
• Boys and Girls in the Elementary School - Christine Skelton
• Masculinities and Femininities and Secondary Schooling - Kevin G. Davison and Blye W. Frank
• Gender Equity in Post-Secondary Education - Carole Leathwood
• Gender and Higher Education - Sara Delamont
• Single-Sex Schooling - Diana Leonard
• Section 3 Gender and School Subjects
• Nature, Neglect and Nuance: Changing Accounts of Sex, Gender and Mathematics - Jo Boaler and Tesha Sengupta-Irving
• Engaging Girls in Science - Angela Calabrese Barton, Nancy Brickhouse
• Gender and Literacy - Bronwyn Davies and Sue Saltmarsh
• ‘Sex’ Education: Subjugated Discourses and Adolescents' Voices - Bagele Chilisa
• Gender Issues in Testing and Assessment - Jannette Elwood
• Gender and Citizenship - Tuula Gordon
• Gender and Modern Language Education - Linda M. von Hoene
• Gender and Technology: What the Research Tells Us - Jo Sanders
• Section 4 Gender, Identity and Educational Sites
• Room at the Table: Racial and Gendered Realities in the Schooling of Black Children - Janie Victoria Ward and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood
• Compounding Inequalities: Gender and Class in Education - Diane Reay
• The ‘Right’ Way to Educate Boys: Interrogating the Politics of Boys' Education in Australia - Wayne Martino
• Constructing Femininity/Constructing Femininities - Carrie Paechter
• Appropriate Behavior? Sexualities, Schooling and Hetero-Gender - David James Mellor and Debbie Epstein
• Achieving Equity: Disability and Gender - Michael L. Wehmeyer and Harilyn Rousso
• Gender Voices in the Classroom - Madeleine Arnot
• Section 5 Working in Schools and Colleges
• School Culture and Gender - Fengshu Liu
• Gendered Classroom Experiences - Emma Renold
• Women in Teaching: Participation, Power and Possibility - Jane Gaskell and Ann L. Mullen
• Constructing Teaching Identities - Lisa Smulyan
• Women Working in Academe: Approach with Care - Sandra Acker and Michelle Webber
• Gender and Educational Management - Charol Shakeshaft