Miseducation Of Women
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...
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Tooley (education policy, U. of Newcastle upon Tyne) argues that for the past three or four decades, women have been convinced to seek fulfillment in the marketplace and public arena, and therefore suffer dissatisfaction and yearning for family and home life. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR EVANGELICAL NOW ...Sensible and well-argued.
Acknowledgements1The Bridget Jones Syndrome12Stubborn Girls263Romantic Illusions504áSinging and Dancing that Womanhood is Beautiful'885Let's Hope It's Not True1216A Theory of Education as if Darwin Mattered1437Big Sister is Watching You1928Celebrating the Gender Gap214Notes237Bibliography247Index259
\ Evangelical Now...Sensible and well-argued.\ \ \ \ \ Evening StandardA new and enthusiastic entrant into the [gender] debate takes the argument to a different, altogether more controversial level.\ \ \ London TelegraphThe 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.\ \ \ \ \ Times Educational SupplementThis 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.\ — Caroline St. John-Brooks\ \ \ \ \ EVANGELICAL NOW...Sensible and well-argued.\ \ \ \ \ EVENING STANDARDA new and enthusiastic entrant into the [gender] debate takes the argument to a different, altogether more controversial level.\ \ \ \ \ KLIATTThis book, written in England, is the latest in the modern cyclical trend of books about the role of women in the world. First there were the books written by Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, which made women aware of their limited options in the world and which "denigrated domesticity." That was followed by their impact in changing education policy so that boys and girls were treated equally and given a chance to excel in all areas. Tooley, a professor of education policy and writer in England, presents the argument that boys and girls are innately different and that girls have been forced to be like boys and women like men when they would be happier if they were permitted to do what comes naturally. He uses many examples from popular sources like Bridget Jones' Diary as well as academic ones to make his point that we should "celebrate" the gender gap. The book is well-written but filled with too many examples of unhappy career women and too few examples of happy and fulfilled professional women who have been given opportunities they wouldn't have had before the change in policy and are happy with their choices. KLIATT Codes: SA-Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2002, Ivan R Dee, 258p. notes. bibliog. index., Ages 15 to adult. \ — Nola Theiss\ \
