Politics of Gender and Education

JACKY BRINE is Professor of Education and the University of the West of England, Bristol, UKMARIANNE S. CASTANO is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Human Development and Psychology program, USASUE CLEGG is Professor of Educational Research and Deputy Director of the Learning and Teaching Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam UniversityMIRIAM E. DAVID is Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Professor of Policy Studies in Education at Keele University, UKKEVIN G. DAVISON is currently completing his doctorate with the Department of Education at the University of South Australia, Adelaide and is a part-time faculty member at the Department of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaLINDA EYRE is Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, CanadaSUNDRA FLANSBURG is Director of the Women's Education Equity Act Resource Centre at Education Development Center, USABLYE W. FRANK is Professor in the Division of Medical Education and Director of Faculty Development in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax, CanadaKATHERINE HANSON directs the Gender and Diversities Institute at the Education Development Center, USATRUDY A. LOVELL is currently completing her doctorate with the Department of Education at the University of South Australia, Adelaide and is a part-time faculty member at the Department of Education at MountSaint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaHELEN POULSEN is a social development consultant working in the education sectorJOCEY QUINN is Research Fellow at the Institute for Access Studies, Staffordshire UniversityMELISSA A. RYCHENER is a PhD candidate in the Higher Education programme at the School of Educational Policy and Leadership, Ohio State University, USAMARY ANN DANOWITZ SAGARIA is Associate Professor and Interim Director of the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at the Ohio State UniversityCAROL ANN SMITH is an independent scholarANN B. VIBERT is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, CanadaSUE WEBB is Senior Lecturer and director of the Institute for Lifelong Learning in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK

• Notes on the Editors and Contributors Introduction PART I: POLITICAL AND POLICY CONTEXTS A Feminist Critique of Public Policy Discourse about Educational Effectiveness; M.E.David Turning it Around: Debating Approaches to Gender and North-South Learning; H.Poulsen Boys and Underachievement in the Canadian Context: No Proof for Panic; K.G.Davison, T.A.Lovell, B.W.Frank and A.B.Vibert PART II: MACRO POLICIES AND MICRO EFFECTS Gender Equity Policy and Education: Reporting on/from Canada; L.Eyre, T.A.Lovell and C.A.Smith Genderspace: Learning Online and the Implications of Gender; C.Hanson, S.Flansberg and M.S.Castano Inside Leadership Circles and the Managerial Quagmire: Key Influences on Women Administrators' Mobility and Opportunity in US Higher Education; M.A.Danowitz Sagaria and M.A.Rychener PART III: POLITICISING EDUCATIONAL IDENTITIES Feet of Class and Relations of Power; J.Brine Gender, Identity and Social Change: Understanding Adults' Learner Careers; S.Webb Diverse Identities in Postgraduate Research: Experiencing Gender and Class; S.Clegg The Corporealty of Learning: Women Students and the Body; J.Quinn Index