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	AUTHOR	TITLE / DETAILS	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	ADAMS & LAURIKIETIS.	THE GENDER TRAP	Quartet	£1.75
	Carol & Rae,	A Closer look at Sex Roles 1: Education and Work. The gender Trap is a three-part series of books which analyse the expected behaviour and accepted sex roles of men and women in our society, attempts to answer some of these questions, taking a long hard look at how society shapes young men and women now, and arguing that things could be different. Each book is illustrated with original cartoons, contains extracts, stories, poems, interviews, facts and figures, letters, questions and subjects for discussions and debate, together with suggestions for further reading and study.	Fair 1980 Revised edition.   ISBN: 0704338017
	ALGER.	OFF TO UNIVERSITY?	Dp	£3.50
	Sally,	A Students Guide to living and studying away from home. Essential guide to life at college. It takes you from the earliest days, when you're still in an agony of suspense, waiting for your place to be confirmed, right through to your first exams. You'll find the answers to all your questions, including the biggest one of all: what exactly is Freshers Week and have you any chance of surviving it with your sanity intact? If you havn't lived away from home before, you'll find the books practical tips on money management and budgeting very useful. Plus there's a beginner's guide to shopping for food, knocking up quick and tasty meals (recipes included), dealing with everyday chores such as bill-paying and irritating flatmates - and generally making the most of your new-found independence.	Good / V Good 1993       ISBN: 1858050677
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	BELOTTI.	LITTLE GIRLS	Writers & Readers	£1.50
	Elena Gianini,	Social conditioning and it's effect on the stereotyped role of women during infancy. The traditional characteristics which set men and women apart in society do not originate from natural differences, but develop from the social conditions which segregate children according to their sex-roles from birth. Even before birth, conditioning begins which directs both sexes to their pre-assigned, stereotyped roles, indeed with the very choice of baby clothes - blue for boys and pink for girls. An Introduction by Margaret Drabble.	Poor / Fair 1975     ISBN: 0904613070
	BLEIR.	FEMINIST APPROACHES TO SCIENCE.	Athene	£4.95
	Ruth, Ed,	Collection of essays that explore the nature of contemporary science and attempt to extend our vision toward a science that is better, different, and feminist. The dimensions and possibilities of a feminist perspective to the natural sciences are explored in a manner that will act as a catalyst for greater discussion of this thought provoking topic. Representing a variety of viewpoints, the contributors include Ruth Bleir, Elizabeth Fee, Donna Haraway, Sarah Blaffer Hardy, Marion Namewirth, Hilary Rose, Sue V Rosser, Susan Searing, and Mariamne H Whatley. Each contributor pushes beyond the criticism of mainstream science to examine the formulation of sciences, which will be transformed by feminist perspectives and approaches. OUT OF STOCK - AT PRESENT!	Fair / Good 1986 Large   ISBN: 0-08-032786-9
	BROWNE.	SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN THE EARLY YEARS.	Open University	£3.75
	Naima, Ed),	An Equal Opportunities Approach. The early years of schooling are crucial in the development of skills, concepts and attitudes. Gender differences in the curriculum areas of science and technology are strikingly evident in nursery and infant classes but teachers and parents have often felt unsure about the possible causes of these inequalities and uncertain about what steps can be taken to minimize the inequalities. This book describes girls' experiences of science and technology in the early years of schooling and provides accounts of equal opportunities work done by teachers in schools. it aims to highlight the gender inequalities that exist in earl years eduation in the fields of science and technology to clarify how equal opportunities initiatives and anti-racist and anti-sexist initiatives can change the nature of science and technology education in the early years of schooling to provide suggestions for practical strategies to enable teachers and parents to work towards improving the educational experiences of very young girls. OUT OF STOCK - AT PRESENT!	Fair / Good 1991           ISBN: 0-335-09229-2
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	DEEM.	WOMEN & SCHOOLING	Rhp	£3.95
	Rosemary,	Examination of Women and Education in Britain.   Sorry - Out of stock at present!	Hardback Good 1978
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	HUNT.	LESSONS FOR LIFE.	Blackwell	£4.25
	Felicity, Ed),	The Schooling of Girls and Women 1850-1950. Schooling and education were central to women's lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for they affected the ways in which women later experienced employment, marriage and domestic life. This book examines the education and socialization of women, both inside and outside school, exploring how these processes both reflect and reinforced gender divisions. The individual contributions range widely to discuss formal education at every level, as well as informal socializing influences such as romantic fiction and women's magazines, gender inequalities in the school curriculum and in the teaching profession, and the role of teachers in educating young women. Together, the essays illistrate the extent to which the educational neds of girls were perceived as different from those of boys; while boys were prepared for work or professional careers, girls were schooled in doemstic functions and 'feminine' accomplishments. One of the first to consider education from the perspective of gender, this volume shows how ideologies of femininity dictated educational theory and practice. But it also goes beyond that to reveal how girls were inculcated with social and cultural values about feminine behaviour and aspirations which provided 'lessons for life'.	Good / V Good 1987           ISBN: 0-631-14975-9
	HYNES.	RECONSTRUCTING BABYLON.	Earthscan	£5.25
	H. Patricia, Ed,	Women and Technology. Women have always used technology, but never from a position of control. The history of technology has been premised on the world that men protect and provide for women while women service them. Even women scientists are expected to serve as wife-like and daughter-like assistants to their male colleagues. Recent developments in reproductive technologies, which use the female body as the subject of scientific experiment, mean that women now have even less control over their bodies and their own lives. This collection of essays focuses on how women are affected worlwide by environmental toxins, reproductive and biochemical technologies ad surrogacy. The authors, all members of the institute on Women and Technology, stress the need for a scientific policy which empowers women and in which women's dignity and autonomy are central considerations.	Fair / Good 1990   ISBN: 1-85383-057-7
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	JONES & MAHONY	LEARNING OUR LINES	Women's Press	£3.50
	Carol & Pat, Eds),	Sexuality and Social control in Education. Learning our lines is a resistance book for education in the 1990s. it documents historical and current state control over education and over sexuality, and examines the disturbing link between sexual violence and social control of girls and women. Fundamental changes in the law governing education have taken place in recent years, including the Education Reform Act and Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which outlaws the promotion of homosexuality as a 'pretend family relationship'. Fighting fire with fire, Learning our lines shows that schooling promotes a highly mythologised version of heterosexuality in which stereotyped ideas about masculinity and femininity go unchallenged. The authors, teachers, youth workers and educationalists, look at the past initiatives and the responses of young women and teachers today. They offer inspiration and strategies for young people, teachers, governors and parents alike.	Fair / Good 1989       ISBN: 0-7043-4199-9
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	KELLY.	THE MISSING HALF	Manchester	£4.50
	Alison, Ed),	Girls and Science Education. Girls' under-achievment in science is a widespread cause for concern. Scientists and educators are concerned that many girls leave school with a lop-sided education; planners worry about the loss of qualified scientific personnel, and feminists about the limited career opportunities available to women as a result. Research into the problem and the range of explanations for sex differences in science achievment have expanded rapidly over the past few years. three perspectives are offered by the contributors in this collection of original papers. First, competing theories of the origins of girls' under-schievment are evaluated. Short reports of original research follow, illuminating the problem as it presents itself in schools, including the process and deteminants of subject choice and teachers' attitudes to girl scientists. Finally, pupils and teachers give their own views, and suggest some strategies to improve girls' performance. As well as being of interest to teachers and those involved in women's studies, the book provides source materials for educational research.	Fair / Good 1981       ISBN: 0719007534
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	MAHONY.	SCHOOLS FOR THE BOYS	Hutchinson	£3.00
	Pat,	Co-Education Reassessed. Do girls do better in single-sex or co-educational schools? Up to now, discussion has centred on girls' academic achievments in single or mixed-sex groups, but pat Mahony's research clearly demonstrates that this is not the only issue, and that co-education is damaging for girls socially as well as academically. She challenges the argument that co-education is desirable because it is more normal. her research reveals that it is normal for girls to be 'put down' in class, to be verbally abused and sexually harassed by boys, and yes, this will be their 'normal' experience by women. but does this justify the way girls are treated in schools? Pat Mahony goes on to explore some of the reasons behind this state of affiers and suggest that the answer lies in sexual politics not biology. An Explorations in Feminism Series Book.	Fair / Good 1985           ISBN: 0 09 160841 4
	MIDDLETON.	WOMEN & EDUCATION IN AOTEAROA	Allen	£3.75
	Sue, Ed),	The role of education in initiating (or inhibiting) change is one of the most crucial in today's society. This book looks at the way in which New Zealand schools, universities, educational policies and teachers affect women. The impact of Pakeha education on Maori women, the teaching of science, the influence of feminism, are among the topics covered. the essays are set in the context of a feminist perspective, outlined by educational sociologist Sue Middleton. This is a new chellenging work that will be valuable in current debates about the future of education in New Zealand.	Fair / Good 1989     ISBN: 0 86861 539 0
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	PARTINGTON.	WOMEN TEACHERS IN THE 20TH CENTURY.	NFER	£3.50
	Geoffrey,	In England and Wales. Includes: Women teachers before 1914; The First World War and after; Between the wars; Women teachers and the Second World War; The Royal Commission on Equal Pay 1944-1946; The Post War years; Equal Pay and after; Women and teaching as a profession. The NFER Publishing Company's book publishing programme aims to make available new research findings and other original material of value to the educational world. The company is associated with the National Foundation for Education Research in England and Wales.	Poor / Fair 1976   ISBN: 0 85633 100 7
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	SCRATON.	SHAPING UP TO WOMANHOOD.	Open University	£3.75
	Sheila,	Gender and Girls' Physical Education. Recent critical texts on education and the feminist critiques of schooling have neglected physical education as a subject area which contains strong gender messsages yet possesses the potential to challenge myths concerning women's bodies, strength and physicality. The study upon which this books is based questions the contribution of PE to the reinforcement of images of 'femininity' and to the devlopment of 'gender-appropraite' behaviour among girls. The book opens with an eccessible account of feminist theoretical perspectives, uniquely applying this work to girls' PE. It traces the foundations and traditions of girls' PE identifying ideologies of physical ability/capacity, motherhood/domesticity and sexuality which form the legacy inherited by contemporary PE. The main section of the book is an in-depth study of the teaching and practice of PE today based on long term observation in schools. Key issues which emerge from the research include: the relationship between sexuality and the body; the implications for girs of mixed-sex grouping; young women's sub-cultures, leisure and PE. While providing the first critique of girls' PE in schools the books offers positive alternatives of value to all concerned with education, highlighting PE as having real potential in challenging women's subordination and in developing anti-sexist schooling.	Good 1992               ISBN: 0-335-09693-X
	SEXTON.	WOMEN IN EDUCATION	Phi Delta Kappa	£3.75
	Patricia,	Analysis of Women in Education. Includes: Women and schools Historical Backgrounds Sexual democracy and discrimination Work roles Law Vocations and beyond.	Fair / Good 1976   ISBN:0-87367-417-0
	SHEPHERD.	LIFTING THE VEIL.	Shambala	£6.00
	Linda Jean,	The Feminine Face of Science. The feminine principle, with all it s unique qualities and ways of seeing, is emerging in science today to restore the lost soul to disciplines once limited by principles pf logic, analysis, and reductionism. Linda Shepherd draws on the experiences of contemporary scientists to show how the unveiling of the feminine is enlivening modern science, infusing it with a new spirit of cooperation and compassion, and changing long-held ideas about progress and about what makes "good science".	Fair / Good 1993   ISBN: 0-87773-656-1
	SPENDER.	INVISIBLE WOMEN	Writers & Readers	£3.25
	Dale,	The Schooling Scandal. In this revolutionary book Dale Spender examines the way women are educated and concludes that the myth of equal opportunity, if it means anything at all, means the opportunity to be subject to rules and ideas institued by men for the benefit of men. The hard-won rights of women to enter an educational system from which we were previously debarred turn out to be a mirage. Dale Spender's chilling perceptions are backed by irresistible evidence; for exaomple, extensive analysis of teaching in mixed-sex schools reveals that even where girls far outnumber boys in class, they never get more than a third of a teacher's attentions. Feminist in the most positive sense, the ideas in this book are of universal importance. For in demonstrating how male subjectivity is given the appearance of objective fact, it shows how our education system is founded not upon truth, but half-truth.	Fair 1982         ISBN: 0 906495 94 6
	SPENDER.	MAN MADE LANGUAGE.	Pandora	£3.95
	Dale,	For women, language is man-made, for it encompasses the meanings of men, who have arrived at their definitions of the world from a position of dominance, a position which women do not occupy; for women these meanings are partial and false. Dale Spender argues, positively, entertainingly, challengingly that, since language is fundamental to human-ness, it is through the patriarchal language that much of women's continued subordination is structured. She shows us how, once women expose the falseness of existing male meanings and encode their own, language and society can assume new forms, and women can move towards autonomy and self determination and can assume a position of strength in the world. This exciting feminist study of language, its rules and uses, was first published in 1980, has reprinted many times, and is now as fresh, as relevant and as liberating as it has ever been.	Good / V Good 1994         ISBN: 0-04-440766-1
	SZIROM.	TEACHING GENDER?	Allen & Unwin	£3.75
	Tricia,	Sex Education and Sexual Stereotypes. Provides a unique perspective on the creation of gender and the way in which sex education programs in schools contribute to this. Through a series of conversations with young people, a picture is developed of the way in which young women and young men view their own sexuality demonstrates that, in spite of the 'sexual revolution', young people's sexuality is still expressed within traditional gender constraints. Teaching gender provides a conceptual framework for the discussion of the construction of gender and the place of theories of sexuality within this; examples of young people's attitudes and practice; an historical perspective for and current analysis of the provision of sex education; and, most important, practical strategies for change.	Fair / Good 1988         ISBN: 0 04 303006 8
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	WALKER & BARTON, Eds),	GENDER, CLASS & EDUCATION	Falmer	£3.95
	Stephen & Len,	Collection of papers from the sociology of education conference. Includes: Gender, Class & Education: A personal view. Intersections of gender and class Gender, resistance and power work, class and teaching a cloud over co-education the conservative school gender, partriarchy and class in education of women women and teaching sex, education and social policy. social theory, social relations and education.	Fair 1983 £2 P&P (UK)     ISBN: 0 905273 41 9
	WALKERDINE.	COUNTING GIRLS OUT	Virago	£3.50
	Valerie,	Girls & Mathematics unit, institute of education. Investigation into the myth and false evidence of girls attainment in Mathematics. The Girls and Mathematics Unit has, over a period of ten years, carried out detailed theoretical and empirical investigations in this area. In taking issue with truisms such as: women are irrational, illogical and too close totheir emotions to be any good at mathematics, this study examines and puts into historical perspective claims made about women's minds. It analyses the relationship between evidence and axplanation: why are girls still taken to be lacking when they perform well, and boys credited even when they perform poorly? Counting Girls Out is an enquiry into the bases of these assumptions; it contains examples of work carried out with girls, their teachers and their families - at home and in the classroom - and discusses the problems and possibilities of feminist research more generally.	Fair / Good 1989             ISBN: 1-85381-069-X
	WALKERDINE & LUCEY.	DEMOCRACY in the KITCHEN	Virago	£1.95
		Regulating mothers and socialising daughters.	Fair 1989
	WEINER & ARNOT Eds),	GENDER UNDER SCRUTINY	Open University	£4.50
		New inquiries in Education.	Fair 1987
	WHATMORE & LITTLE.	GENDER & GEOGRAPHY	SW	£3.50
	Sarah & Jo,	VOL 3 - No1: Contemporary issues in Geography and Education.	Fair 1984
	WICKHAM.	WOMEN AND TRAINING	Open University	£3.50
	Ann,	An Examination. Ann Wickham asks why training opportunities for women are so poorly provided and how they can be improved. She begins by examining the whole concept of training, and asks how far it re[resents to women a part of the male rather than the famle world. She looks at notions of skill and how these have developed to devalue women's work. She tackles immediate post-school training in further education (paying particular attention to the MSC); training at work; and training in later life or at the point of return to work. For each of these areas she discusses the effects of economic and technological change; and explores geographical, historical and legisltive influences. She deals with the prospects for positive discrimination and describes a number of feminist alternatives for women's training that are beginning to be developed in Britain.	Fair 1986         ISBN: 0 335 15119 1
	WIDDOWSON.	GOING UP INTO THE NEXT CLASS	WRRC	£2.25
	Frances,	Women and Elementary Teacher Training, 1840-1914. Analysis of the treatments of girls during schooling. The Women's Research and Resource Centre was founded in 1975 to set up a library and research index, to run seminars and courses, and to issue a newsletter, all of which would be of interest to feminists. WRRC Publications grew out of this body, although it is now autonomous. WRRC is run by an unpaid collective of women, whose aim is to make available a new series of short publications falling under the following headings: Explorations in feminis, Feminist reprints Critical debates in feminist thought Feminist sources The books are produced as cheaply as possible, and any profits made are used to produce further titles.	Fair 1985         ISBN: 0 905969 06 5

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