Gender & Sexuality Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Gender Inclusive Engineering Education

   By Julie Mills, Mary Elizabeth Ayre, Judith Gill

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Feminist Critique of Education

   Fifteen Years of Gender Development

   Edited by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis

   Series: Education Heritage

   This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years. It includes over thirty-five seminal articles from the journal Gender and Education, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education

   Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights

   Edited by Dave Hill

   Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

   Advancing a powerful critique of neoliberalized education in many of the rich countries of the world (USA, Canada, Finland, Greece, Israel, Japan, England and Wales, and others), the chapters in this book, written by an international array of acclaimed and emerging radical educators and policy...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Developing World and State Education

   Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives

   Edited by Dave Hill, Ellen Rosskam

   Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

   Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more. This edited collection argues...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
5. Troubling Gender in Education

   Edited by Jo-Anne Dillabough, Julie McLeod, Martin Mills

   This book explores new questions and lines of analysis within the field of ‘gender and education’, conveying some of the style and diversity of contemporary research directions. It celebrates as well as assesses the achievements of feminist work in education, acknowledging this legacy while also ‘...

   Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge
6. Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education

   Constructing Women's Status

   By Elizabeth J. Allan

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book describes policy discourse analysis as a framework for considering how those involved in policy-making efforts may make use of discourses that...

   Published August 8th 2010 by Routledge
7. Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context

   Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives

   Edited by Shailaja Fennell, Madeleine Arnot

   The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015. But can such global agendas address national and local gender inequalities and will they empower women through education? This thought-provoking book offers an opportunity to engage critically with existing and...

   Published June 28th 2009 by Routledge