Table Of Content

Gender and Education Contents of Volume 11, 1999 EDITORS Christina Hughes, University of Warwick Rosemary Preston, Uniwersity of Warwick REVIEWS EDITOR Jane Martin, Uniwersity College, Northampton EDITORIAL BOARD Elizabeth Bird, Unwersity of Bristol; Loraine Blaxter, Unwersity of Warwick; Hannah Bradby, Unwersity of Glasgow; Amanda Coffey, University of Wales, Cardiff; Miriam David, Institute of Education, London; Delia Davin, University of Leeds; Katherine Day, University of Edinburgh; Sara Delamont, Uniwwersity of Wales College of Cardiff; Mary Eagleton, Unwersity College of Ripon and York, St John; Christine Griffin, University of Birmingham; Christine Heward, Uniwersity of Warwick; Vivien Johnston, Kent; Gayle Letherby, Unwersity of Coventry; Jane Martin, University College, Northampton; Lynda Measor, Unwersity of Brighton; Gerda Siann, Unwersity of Dundee; Beverly Skeggs, Uniwwersity of Lancaster; Christine Skelton, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Barbara Smail, British Association for the Advancement of Science; Margaret Talbot, Leeds Metropolitan Unwersity; Jenny Williams, University of Wolverhampton. INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTS Judith Abrahami-Einat, School of Education, Tel-Avw Unwersity, Israel; Sandra Acker, O/SE, Unwersity of Toronto, Canada; Madeleine Arnot, Unwersity of Cambridge; Bronwyn Davies, James Cook Unwersity of North Queensland, Australia; Rosemary Deem, University of Lancaster; Tuula Gordon, Unwersity of Tampere, Finland; Arlene Griffen, University of the South Pacific; Sue Lees, Uniwersity of North London, UK; Diana Leonard, Unwersity of London, UK; Pat Mahoney, Rochampton Institute, London, UK; Arlene McLaren, Simon Fraser University, Canada; Averil McClelland, Kent State Unwersity, Ohio, USA; Sue Middleton, University of Waikato, New Zealand; Mamphele Ramphele, Unwersity of Cape Town; Nelly Stromquist, University of Southem Califorma; Valerie Walkerdine, Uniwersity of West Sydney, Napean; Gaby Weiner, Uniwersity of Umed, Sweden; Cecile Wright, Nottingham Trent Unwersity; Makoto Yamaguchi, Ryutsu Keizai Unwersity, Japan EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Amanda Barton; Loraine Blaxter, University of Warwick This journal publishes articles and shorter, more polemic ‘viewpoints’ from throughout the world which contribute to feminist knowledge, theory, consciousness, action and debate. All articles and viewpoints are submitted to at least two referees before acceptance for publication. Editorial correspondence, including manuscripts for submission should be addressed to Christina Hughes or Rosemary Preston, Department of Continuing Education, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. Details concerning the preparation and submission of articles can be found on the inside back cover of each issue. Books for review should be sent to Jane Martin, University College, Park Campus, Moulton Park, Northampton NN2 7AL, UK. Business correspondence, including orders and remittances relating to subscriptions, back numbers and offprints, should be addressed to the publisher: Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Customer Services Department, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG24 8PR, UK. Advertising enquiries should be addressed to Claire Buckminster, Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Ltd, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK. The journal is published four times a year, in March, June, September and December. These four annual issues constitute one volume. An annual index and title page is bound in the December issue. © 1999 Taylor & Francis Ltd Contents of Volume 11, 1999 Number 1 Lalage Bown. Beyond the Degree: men and women at the decision-making levels in British higher education Tapologo Maundeni. African Females and Adjustment to Studying Abroad Sue Clegg, Wendy Mayfield & Deborah Trayhurn. Disciplinary Discourses: a case study of gender in information technology and design courses Kay Standing. Lone Mothers’ Involvement in their Children’s Schooling: towards a new typology of maternal involvement David Mittelberg & Lilach Lev-An. Confidence in Mathematics and its Consequences: gender differences among Israeli Jewish and Arab youth Lynn Raphael Reed. Troubling Boys and Disturbing Discourses on Masculinity and Schooling: a feminist exploration of current debates and interventions concerning boys in school BOOK REVIEWS Music, Gender, Education (Lucy Green) reviewed by June Boyce-Tillman A Governess in the Age ofJ ane Austen (Joanna Martin) reviewed by Ruth Watts Educating the Other: gender, power and schooling (Carrie Paechter) reviewed by Jane Askew Academics Responding to Change: new higher education frameworks and academic cultures (Paul R. Trowler) reviewed by Gayle Letherby The Common Ground of Womanhood: class, gender and working girls’ clubs, 1884-1924 (Priscilla Murolo) reviewed by Joyce Goodman Daddy’s Girl—young girls and popular culture (Valerie Walkerdine) reviewed by Sandra Moffat Number 2 Mana Tamboukou. Spacing Herself: women in education Kelly Coate. Feminist Knowledge and the Ivory Tower: a case study Margaret Callaghan, Charlie Cranmer, Murray Rowan, Gerda Siann & Fiona Wilson. Feminism in Scotland: self-identification and stereotypes Carolyn Britton @ Arthur Baxter. Becoming a Mature Student: gendered narratives of the self Pauline R. Schreuder. Gender in Dutch General Education. The Case of “Taking Care’ Jillian De Jean, Rena Upitis, Corina Koch & Jonathan Young. The Story of Phoenix Quest: how girls respond to a prototype language and mathematics computer game BOOK REVIEWS Gender in Early Childhood (Nicola Yelland, Ed.) and Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children. Social Relations in a Multi-ethnic Inner City Primary School (Paul Connolly) reviewed by Hannah Bradby Raising Boys’ Achievements in Schools (Kevan Bleach) reviewed by Christine Skelton The Feminist Critique of Language—a reader (Deborah Cameron, Ed.) reviewed by Gaby Weiner Gender and Impenalism (Clare Midgley, Ed.) reviewed by AnnMarie Wolpe Subject to Fiction: women teachers’ life histories and the cultural politics of resistance (Petra Munro) reviewed by Rosemary Preston Ms Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia (Emily Troth) reviewed by Christina Hughes BOOKS RECEIVED Number 3 Special Issue: Gender and (Management) Education Edited by Morgan Tanton Editorial PART ONE: CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION Judi Marshall. Doing Gender in Management Education Clare Rigg G Kiran Trehan. Not Critical Enough? Black Women Raise Challenges for Critical Management Learning Be Gatenby & Mana Humphnes. Exploring Gender, Management Education and Careers: speaking in the silences INTERREGNUM Linda Perriton. The Provocative and Evocative Gaze upon Women in Management Development PART TWO: BEING LEADERS AND MANAGERS Jane Strachan. Feminist Educational Leadership: locating the concept in practice Craig Prichard & Rosemary Deem. Wo-managing Further Education: gender and the construction of the manager in the corporate colleges of England Jeanette Mors. Managing Women: secondary school principals in Trinidad and Tobago BOOK REVIEWS Gender and Management Issues in Education: an international perspectwe (Pat Drake & Patricia Owen. Eds) reviewed by Jane Martin The Male in the Head: young people, heterosexuality and power (Janet Holland, Caroline Ramozanoglu, Sue Sharpe & Rachel Thomson) reviewed by Hannah Frith Education into the Twenty-first Century: dangerous terrain for women? (Alison Mackinnon, Inga Elqvist-Saltzman & Alison Prentice (Eds)) reviewed by Sue Jackson Surviving the Academy: feminist perspectwes (Danusia Malina & Sian Maslin-Prothero) reviewed by Gina Wisker The Academic Kitchen: a social history of gender stratification at the University of California, Berkeley (Maresi Nerad) reviewed by Elizabeth Bird Gender and Choice in Education and Occupation (John Radford, Ed.) reviewed by Clare Wood Interactwe Identities: Jewish women in New Zealand (Livia Kathe Wittman) reviewed by Elody Rathgen Leadership in Early Education 2nd edn (Jillian Rodd) reviewed by Janice Grimes BOOKS RECEIVED Number 4 Becky Francis. Modernist Reductionism or Post-structuralist Relativism: can we move on? An Evaluation of the Arguments in Relation to Feminist Educational Research Pauline James. Masculinities under Reconstruction: classroom pedagogy and cultural change Leone Burton. Fables: The Tortoise? The Hare? The Mathematically Under- achieving Male? Elizabeth Yeoman. How Does It Get into my Imagination?: elementary school children’s intertextual knowledge and gendered storylines Stephen Gorard, Gareth Rees & Jane Salisbury. Reappraising the Apparent Under- achievement of Boys at School Jennifer Sumsion. Critical Reflections on ihe Experiences of a Male Early Childhood Worker Gunilla Halldén. “To be, or not to be’: absurd and humoristic descriptions as a strategy to avoid idyllic life stories—boys write about family life BOOK REVIEWS Country Schoolwomen: teaching in rural California, 1850-1950 (Kathleen Weiler) reviewed by Kate Rousmaniere Gendered Practices (Boel Berner, Ed.) reviewed by Bridget A. Egan Answering Back: girls, boys and feminism in schools (Jane Kenway & Sue Willis) reviewed by Amanda Barton Playing with Time: mothers and the meaning of literacy (Jane Mace) reviewed by Caroline Bowden Love and Freedom: professional women and the reshaping ofp ersonal life (Alison Mackinnon) reviewed by Jane Martin Children’s Literature and the Politics of Equality (Pat Pinset) reviewed by Alexis Wing Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860 (Ruth Watts) reviewed by Paula Bartley BOOKS RECEIVED Volume Contents and Author Index to Volume 11, 1999