The Miseducation of Women

by James Tooley The University of Buckingham

Overview

Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Could this misguided equality have anything to do with the increasing dissatisfaction among women that is revealed in survey after survey? Do gender-blind educational policies in fact work to women's disadvantage? Bringing together many women's voices, from Bridget Jones to Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan to Germaine Greer, James Tooley challenges education's sacred cows, demanding a radical rethinking of sexual politics and a fairer way forward for women. The Miseducation of Women landed like a bombshell when it was published in England a few months ago; but Mr. Tooley's book, replete with examples and anecdotes from the United States as well as Great Britain, has equal application to the gender arguments on this side of the Atlantic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461724445
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	07/21/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

James Tooley is professor of education policy at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and author of Reclaiming Education and The Global Education Industry. He writes frequently for the London Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and other newspapers and periodicals. He lives in England.

Table of Contents

The Bridget Jones syndrome • Stubborn girls • Romantic illusions • Le&tgrave;s hope it is not true • A theory of education as if Darwin mattered • Big sister is watching you • Celebrating the gender gap.

Editorial Reviews

...Sensible and well-argued.

EVANGELICAL NOW

A new and enthusiastic entrant into the [gender] debate takes the argument to a different, altogether more controversial level.

EVENING STANDARD

A new and enthusiastic entrant into the [gender] debate takes the argument to a different, altogether more controversial level.

London Evening Standard

...Sensible and well-argued.

The truth in Prof. Tooley's polemic lies not so much in what he says about the national curriculum....Rather, it is in his spirited assault on the 'hidden' curriculum-those underlying messages that schools send pupils.

London Telegraph

This book is designed to create a stir. It is carefully wrought to engage readers who might be coming from very different directions.. .. I disagreed passionately with much of Tooley's thesis. .. but he does engage the reader.

Times Educational Supplement - Caroline St. John-Brooks