Introduction to ‘Mind that you do as you are Told’

Abstract

It is hardly surpnsing that in recent years feminists have turned attention to questions around education. Schooling is after all a common experience, a compulsory part of the lives of all children in advanced industnal societies, and in most other contemporary societies too. And it is even less surprising that many feminists should see education, or rather, institutionalized state schooling, as playing a major part in the creation and maintenance of inequality between the sexes.