What is it like being a boy or a girl? How do boys and girls learn to be men and women? How do families, schools and children's peer groups influence the ways in which children think of themselves as male and female? Being Boys, Being Girls explores how boys and girls learn what it is to be male and[...]

'This is a book to own, read and re-read for its insights and which should then provoke us to act so that all children at school are able to enjoy and benefit from education' - Professor Debbie Epstein, Cardiff University, UK, Editor, "Gender and Education". 'This excellent book offers evidence from[...]