The gender question in education

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A conceptual analysis of Sexism and Sexist education / Maryann Ayim and Barbara Houston -- Genderized education: Tradition reconsidered / Maryann Ayim -- Freeing the Children: The abolition of gender / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Gender freedom and the subtleties of sexist education / Barbara Houston -- The androgynous classroom: Liberation or Tyranny? / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Theorizing gender: How much of it do we need? /Barbara Houston -- The ethics of care and education: A new paradigm, its critics, and its educational significance / Ann Diller -- Describing the emperor's new clothes: Three myths of educational (In- )Equity / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- The perils and paradoxes of the bearded mothers / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Is rapprochement possible between educational criticism and nurturance / Ann Diller -- Role models: Help or hindrance in the pursuit of autonomy? / Barbara Houston -- An ethics of care takes on pluralism / Ann Diller -- The moral politics of sex education / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Women's physical education: A gender-sensitive perspective / Ann Diller and Barbara Houston -- Political correctness: The debate continues / Maryann Ayim.