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Historical and Contemporary Views of Gender and Education by Elisabeth Hansot - 1993In
this essay I will look at three such reform efforts: the "boy problem,"
identified in the Progressive era when critics charged the schools with
being too "female"; a concurrent discussion of the "woman question,"
when critics worried that women were not being adequately prepared
for their adult vocations of wife and mother; and the critique of
coeducation in the 1960s and 1970s, when feminists argued that the
curriculum and training of girls was intentionally or inadvertently
sexist.  View Full Text in PDF Format| This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 92, No. 1. |
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- Elisabeth Hansot
Stanford University
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ELISABETH HANSOT is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at
Stanford University.
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