TY - BOOK AU - Epstein,Debbie ED - University of London. TI - Failing boys?: issues in gender and achievement SN - 0335202381 AV - LC1390. F35 1998 U1 - 371.82110941 23 PY - 1998/// CY - Buckingham, Philadelphia PB - Open University Press KW - Boys KW - Education KW - Great Britain KW - Underachievers KW - School failure KW - Academic achievement KW - Sex differences in education N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Schoolboy frictions : feminism and "failing boys"; Debbie Epstein ... [et al.] --; "Habit of healthy idleness" : boys' underachievement in historical perspective; Michèle Cohen --; Girls will be girls and boys will be first; Pat Mahony --; "Zero tolerance" : gender performance and school failure; Lynn Raphael Reed --; Breaking out of the binary trap : boys' underachievement, schooling and gender relations; David Jackson --; Real boys don't work : "underachievement," masculinity, and the harassment of "sissies"; Debbie Epstein --; Loose canons : exploding the myth of the "black macho" lad; Tony Sewell --; Boys' underachievement, special needs practices and questions of equity; Valerie Hey ... [et al.] --; Language and gender : who, if anyone, is disadvantaged by what?; Joan Swann --; Gendered learning outside and inside school : influences on achievement; Patricia Murphy and Jannette Elwood ER -