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Part 1 History of education policy: women and education - an historicalaccount, 1800-1914, J. Purvis; education for moral improvement, domesticityand social dimension, 1945-51, D.W. Dean; state policy and ideology in theeducation of women, 1944-88, R. Deem; makers of men, M. Littlewood; theeducation policy context, 1976-92, M.E. David; social origins ofunder-achievement among school-leavers, L. Paterson; the reconstruction ofgender in women's colleges in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, E.Edwards. Part 2 Equal opportunity policies: a comparison of differencepolicies, J. Arends and M. Volman; girls' education in the balance, S. Milesand C. Middleton; women, equality and equity in liberal educational policies,1945-88, S. Middleton; feminism, education and the New Right, M. Arnot; themyth of underachievement, H. Mirza; gendered practice in special educationalneeds, H. Daniels et al. Part 3 Policy in practice: what professionalresponsibility means to teachers, P. Broadfoot et al; racialized and gendereddiscourses in teacher education, I. Siraj-Blatchford; feminist change in apatriarchal organization, S. Halford; unholy alliances - the recent policiesof sex education, R. Thomson.