Knowledgeable Women: Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites

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Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I: Introductory Themes -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards a Structuralist Sociology of Education -- Chapter 2: Cultural Capital and Muted Groups: The Theoretical Perspective of the Volume -- Chapter 3: Lessons from St Luke's: Women and Cultural Reproduction -- Part II: The Mountains of Inertia and Prejudice: A Structuralist Discussion of the Period 1845-1944 -- Chapter 4: Chaperons, Gloves, and Cycling in Skirts: Strategies Against Pollution in Women's Education -- Chapter 5: Classics, Chemistry, and Cultural Capital -- Chapter 6: Domesticity or Deiilahism? The Debates Over Womanliness and Education -- Part III: Exploring Structuralist Sociology of Education: A Critique of Sociological Accounts for the Period 1945-88 -- Chapter 7: A Country Fit for Heroines? Schooling and Teaching 1945-88 -- Chapter 8: Excluded From the Elite? Women and Top Jobs 1945-85 -- Chapter 9: Mobile or Nubile? Social Stratification, Mobility, Marriage, and Education -- Chapter 10: Professions and Powerlessness: The Inadequacy of the Sociology and the Chauvinism of the Professionals -- Part IV: Conclusions -- Chapter 11: The Old Middle Class Strikes Back -- Appendix 1: The Impact of Feminism in the Sociology of Education -- Appendix 2: A Note on the History of Education -- Appendix 3: Direct-Grant and Independent Schools Aided by the IFASES 1955-63 -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.