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Reproducing Gender? Essays on Educational Theory and Feminist Politicsreviewed by Haithe Anderson - 2003 Title: Reproducing Gender? Essays on Educational Theory and Feminist Politics Author(s): Madeleine Arnot Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0750708980, Pages: 288, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com This book brings together over two decades of Madeline
Arnot’s contributions to the sociology of education. More
precisely, it traces her involvement in the debates surrounding
social and cultural reproduction theories and girls’
education. This compilation of articles, therefore, will be
welcomed by academics who have followed her career, but also by
those who wish to learn more about the evolution of reproduction
theory. While Arnot’s work responds to social theorists like
Pierre Bourdieu (e.g., 1977), Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis (1976)
and others, she has drawn the greatest substance from Basil
Bernstein (her doctoral supervisor in 1972). One of her major
contributions to the study of gender and education, for
example—her theory of gender codes—is derived from
Bernstein’s (e.g., 1971/1975) theory of educational codes.
(For her most in-depth treatment of Bernstein’s ideas see
chapter 11.) Codes, as Bernstein thought of them, are regulatory
devices that establish and reproduce forms of culture and social
relations that are dependent on the division of labor. What Arnot
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- Haithe Anderson
Bowling Green State University E-mail Author HAITHE ANDERSON is an assistant professor at Bowling Green State University with a specialty in philosophy of education, the history of ideas, and cultural studies. Dr. Anderson's most recent publications appear in Educational Theory, Studies in Philosophy of Education: An International Quarterly, and Teachers College Record.
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