Challenging the traditional power basis of the policy decision-makers in education, this text illustrates the use of a critical and feminist lens in the creation of policies to meet the needs, aspirations and values of women and girls. Focus is on the primary and secondary sectors of education.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Dismantling and Reconstructing Policy Analysis Catherine Marshall -- Part I: The Legitimized Formal Arenas of Policy -- 2 Gender, Ethnicity and the Inclusive Curriculum: An Episode in the Policy Framing of Australian Education /Lyn Yates -- 3 Gender Policies in American Education: Reflections on Federal Legislation and Action /Nelly P. Stromquist -- 4 Gender and the Reports: The Case of the Missing Piece /Lois Weis -- 5 Strategic Feminist Research on Gender Equality and Schooling in Britain in the 1990s /Miriam David, Gaby Weiner and Madeleine Arnot -- Part II: The Politics of Silence and Ambiguity -- 6 From Software Design to Classroom Practice: An Australian Case Study of the Gendered Production, Distribution and Acquisition of Computing Knowledge /Parlo Singh -- 7 Decentering Silences /Troubling Irony: Teen Pregnancy’s Challenge to Policy Analysis /Wanda S. Pillow -- 8 Toward a Curriculum of Resiliency: Gender, Race, Adolescence and Schooling /Natalie Adams -- 9 Feminist Praxis as the Basis for Teacher Education: -- A Critical Challenge /Sandra Hollingsworth -- Part III: New Politics, New Policy -- 10 A Model for Gender-inclusive School Science: Lessons from Feminist Scholarship /Lesley H. Parker -- 11 Feminist Analysis of Sexual Harassment Policy: A Critique of the Ideal of Community /Julie Laible -- 12 Institutionalizing Women’s Voices, Not Their Echoes, through Feminist Policy Analysis of Difference /Hanne B. Mawhinney -- 13 Improving Girls’ Educational Outcomes /Joanna Wyn and Bruce Wilson -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.