Miriam David - A Feminist Manifesto for Education

Miriam E. David

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Copyright Miriam E. David 2016

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First published in 2016 by Polity Press

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ISBN: 978-1-5095-0430-5

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Names: David, Miriam E.
Title: A feminist manifesto for education / Miriam E. David.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016000779| ISBN 9781509504268 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509504275 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Feminism and education. | Women--Education. | Sexism in education.
Classification: LCC LC197 .D37 2016 | DDC 371.822--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016000779

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This book is based upon a great deal of collaborative and collective research, over many years, and I am very grateful to all the people that I have shared with. In particular, I would like to thank the women who participated in my international study of feminist academics and educators, without whose conversations and ideas this book would not have been possible. I am also very grateful to my colleagues on the European Unions Daphne-III Programme, GAP Work: Improving gender-related violence intervention and referral through youth practitioner training (JUST/2012/DAP/AG/3176) (20132015): especially, the coordinator Dr Pam Alldred of Brunel University, London, and Dr Barbara Biglia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, who contributed to and without whom I could not have completed the book. Their collegiality and friendship are legendary. Jonathan Skerrett of Polity Press has also been immensely supportive and helpful.

I should also like to thank my family, particularly my children Dr J. Toby Reiner and his partner Dr Margaret Winchester; and Ms Charlotte Reiner Hershman and her husband David Hershman and my partner, Professor Jeffrey G. Duckett.

The book is dedicated to my grandson Jacob Hershman and all children and young people of future generations, in the hope that they may have more respectful and fair lives than is possible at present.

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