Gender, schooling and global social justice / Elaine Unterhalter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Gender and education for all : setting the scene -- 2. Debating global social justice -- 3. Schooling women and girls : a means, not an end -- 4. Gendered human rights in education -- 5. Capabilities and obligations in an unequal world -- 6. Power, meaning, and activism : some problems for global social justice -- 7. Interventions : 'get girls in' -- 8. Institutionalizing gender equality in education -- 9. The interactive approach -- 10. Gender equality, global social justice and the promise of school.

"Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice is the first book to examine gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. It combines a unique analysis that brings together a discussion of the ethical and conceptual languages in which this aspiration has been articulated with descriptions of initiatives to address questions of gender, justice and schooling. It calls for a new connected approach in policy and practice to address the urgent global challenges in gender and schooling."--BOOK JACKET.