Autorentext
GAIL P. KELLY is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has written extensively on education in colonial Vietnam, with articles appearing in the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Comparative Education Review, Comparative Education, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. She has also written extensively on women and is the coauthor of Women's Education in the Third World: Comparative Perspectives and Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe. Ms. Kelly is currently editor of Educational Policy.

Klappentext

The International Handbook of Women's Education focuses on the history, current status, and outcome of women's schooling. The book provides comparative information about women's education across a broad spectrum of 23 countries. Each essay considers the history of women's education, ideological, and religious beliefs as well as cultural and political traditions which account for the pace of development of women's education and the particular forms that education has taken. The historical context each essay provides serves as a basis for understanding the extent of sexual inequality in school and society which has characterized the world in the past and persists in the present. The major focus of each essay is the state of women's education today. A central concern in each is to chart enrollment patterns and how educational, social, and economic policies affect these patterns. Each essay also considers the content of women's education as well as the outcome of education on women in the labor force, in the political system, and in the family. Finally, each chapter considers contemporary government policies which seek to redress inequalities in education and/or the outcome of education, and the role of the women's movement in seeking change. A bibliography of approximately 1000 items on women's education world wide completes the volume. The descriptive and analytical essays contained in this Handbook provide as comprehensive a picture as possible at this time of women's educational enrollment patterns and also seek to explain why the pattern is as it is. This new handbook is an important addition to the literature of women's studies and education.

Zusammenfassung
The International Handbook of Women's Education focuses on the history, current status, and outcome of women's schooling.

Inhalt
Botswana; Kenya; Nigeria; Senegal; Zaire; People's Republic of China - progress and contradiction in revolution and modernization; the education of women in India; women's education in Japan; women and education in Vietnam - socialism and the dillemas of development; women and education in Australia; French women's education - progress and stagnation; education of women in the German Democratic Republic; co-education and comprehensivization - women and educational reform in England; women's education in Poland; side by side in classroom and at work? ideology and reality in Swedish educational policy and practice; women's education in the Soviet Union - revolution and change; good students, poor workers - the education of Chilean women; women's education in Peru; the education of Samira - women's education in Egypt; Iran - women, education and Islam; educational and social opportunities for girls and women in Israel; women's education in Canada; transition and change - women and education in the United States.