Divide and School: Gender and Class Dynamics in Comprehensive Education

First published in 1995. This book is concerned with how comprehensive schooling can act as a social system of class and gender differentiation. Based on a critical synthesis of feminist and sociological literature on secondary education, Abraham develops a theoretical and methodological framework for ethnographic research into the central gender and class dynamic of a comprehensive school.

John Abraham is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Reading, UK.