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Book Reviews : A Gender Agenda. a Sociological Study of Teachers, Parents and Pupils in Their Primary Schools

A GenderAgenda is based on a research project which focussed on gender relations in two Victorian primary schools. Evans was interested in exploring the ways in which schooling processes are linked to broader structural features of society particularly those related to gender inequalities. With its exploration of teachers, students and parents in an educational setting, the study is reminiscent of the Making the Difference study (Connell et al. 1982). Though much narrower in scope, it provides valuable data about gender relations in primary schools which further an understanding of how gender inequalities are constructed and reconstructed in everyday practices, and importantly, how change might be brought about. There is also a concern in A GenderAgenda to go beyond a reproduction approach to schooling and inequality, and in the introduction to the book Evans draws