Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements. Part I: Introductory Themes 1. Introduction: Towards a Structuralist Sociology of Education 2. Cultural Capital and Muted Groups: the Theoretical Perspective of the Volume 3. Lessons from St Luke's: Women and Cultural Reproduction Part II: The Mountains of Inertia and Prejudice: a Structuralist Discussion of the Period 1845-1944 4. Chaperons, Gloves, and Cycling in Skirts: Strategies Against Pollution in Women's Education 5. Classics, Chemistry, and Cultural Capital 6. Domesticity or Delilahism? The Debates over Womanliness and Education Part III: Exploring Structuralist Sociology of Education: a Critique of Sociological Accounts for the Period 1945-1988 7. A Country Fit for Heroines? Schooling and Teaching 1945-1988 8. Excluded from the Elite? Women and Top Jobs 1945-1985 9. Mobile or Nubile? Social Stratification, Mobility, Marriage, and Education 10. Professions and Powerlessness: the Inadequacy of the Sociology and the Chauvinism of the Professionals Part IV: Conclusions 11. The Old Middle Class Strikes Back. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.