Whitehouse, H.L. (2008) Book review of "Beyond the Great Divide. Single Sex or Coeducation?" by Judith Gill, University New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia. Australian Educational Researcher, 35 (2). pp. 148-151.

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[Extract] Sexual dimorphism arose in the deep mists of biological time as a strategy for successfully conferring genetic diversity. Dimorphism is evidence in many animals. Decapods, arachnids, marine and freshwater fish, birds, as well as mammals, have differentiated female and male bodies. It is not the fact of difference, so much as the historical and contemporary freight of social and cultural meanings applied to human bodies that is of interest here. The history of education is awash with ideas of who was and was not considered educate-able, and in what ways and to what levels beased on their reproductive category. This is the great divide examined in Judith Gill's excellent book, which is a clear sighted and well-structured analysis of the research concerning gender and schooling in Australia and overseas.

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