The Problem with Boys' Education : Beyond the Backlash Book: The Problem with Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash offers an illuminating analysis of the theories, politics and realities of boys' education around the world, providing an insightful and often disturbing account of various educational systems' successes and failings in fostering intellectual and social growth in male students.Examining original research on the impact of implementing boys� education programs in schools, the book also discusses the
role of male teachers in educating boys, strategies for aiding marginalized boys in the classroom, and the possibilities for gender reform in schools that begins at the level of pedagogy.

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Out on the Field: Gender, Sport, and Sexualities Book: This book provides an in-depth examination of gender, sport and sexualities; an analysis of the limitations of liberal feminist responses; and an exploration of radical feminist alternatives. Dr. Lenskyj presents illuminating case studies from Canada, the United States and Australia, with exposes of coaches' and administrators' complicity in perpetuating the chilly climate for female athletes in general, and for lesbians in particular. It includes a content analysis of the mass media treatment of sportswomen, and a discussion of how lesbian characters are portrayed in mainstream and lesbian fiction. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, Dr. Lenskyj contexualises the homophobia and sexual harassment present in the everyday experiences of significant numbers of women involved in sport and physical activity.

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Die Moderne und ihre Vornamen: Eine Einladung in die Kultursoziologie Book: Original Introduction to KultursoziologieDas "Culture" has experienced since the so-called "cultural turn" in the humanities and social sciences an enormous economy. The related thesis of a paradigm change and the sociology is unconvincing. The example of the developmentof name over 100 years is shown that one can work very well with the classical tools of sociology and its epistemological justification to produce evidence on the cultural development of society. The example of the first names can be cultural modernization processes describe empirically, and structurally explained: The traditional ligatures family, religion and commitment to lose to the nation over time in the structuring of the first names of important processes of individualization and globalization, however, its relevance .

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