First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of presentations made at the fifth Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in July, 1982. This volume focuses on the reproduction of gender relations through education.

Introduction 1. Gender, Class and Education: A Personal View 2. Intersections of Gender and Class: Accommodation and Resistance by Working-Class and Affluent Females to Contradictory Sex-Role Ideologies 3. Gender, Resistance and Power 4. Work, Class and Teaching 5. A Cloud over Co-Education: An Analysis of the Forms of Transmission of Class and Gender Relations 6. The Conservative School? Sex Roles at Home, at Work and at School 7. Gender, Patriarchy and Class in the Popular Education of Women 8. Women and Teaching: A Semi-Detached Sociology of a Semi-Profession 9. Sex, Education and Social Policy: A New Moral Economy? 10. Social Theory, Social Relations and Education 11. Gender, Class and Education: A Teaching Bibliography of European Studies 12. Gender, Class and Education: A Teaching Bibliography of Australian and New Zealand Studies 13. Gender, Class and Education: A Teaching Bibliography of American Studies