Synopses & Reviews
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.
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Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Bringing together many women's voices, Tooley challenges education's sacred cows, demanding a radical rethinking of sexual politics.
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Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Bringing together many women's voices, from Bridget Jones to Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan to Germaine Greer, Mr. Tooley challenges education's sacred cows, demanding a radical rethinking of sexual politics and a fairer way forward for women. "This book is...carefully wrought to engage readers who might be coming from very different directions."-Times Educational Supplement.
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Girls and boys are different; why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Do gender-blind education policies in fact work to women's disadvantage? The author demands a radical rethinking of sexual politics and a fairer way forward for women in this book.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index.