Failing Boys?: Issues in Gender and Achievement Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
Pt. I	Boys' underachievement in context	1
1	Schoolboy frictions: feminism and 'failing' boys	3
2	'A habit of healthy idleness': boys' underachievement in historical perspective	19
Pt. II	Different constructions of the debate and its undercurrents	35
3	Girls will be girls and boys will be first	37
4	'Zero tolerance': gender performance and school failure	56
5	Breaking out of the binary trap: boy's underachievement, schooling and gender relations	77
6	Real boys don't work: 'underachievement', masculinity, and the harassment of 'sissies'	96
Pt. III	Boys, which boys?	109
7	Loose canons: exploding the myth of the 'black macho' lad	111
8	Boys' underachievement, special needs practices and questions of equity	128
Pt. IV	Curriculum, assessment and the debate	145
9	Language and gender: who, if anyone, is disadvantaged by what?	147
10	Gendered learning outside and inside school: influences on achievement	162
	Index	182