ABSTRACT
The way any field develops is partly a matter of serendipity, partly politics, fashion and funding and partly the impact of teaching. Gender and education is no exception. It is a three-cornered speciality squeezed in between education, sociology and feminism which has to relate to a trio of theoretical perspectives. The last chapter suggested that a decade or more of research had slowly but surely shown that what mainly needed to be done was to identify and analyse informal processes and interpersonal behaviour: in the course of this the search for useful theory had shifted in the direction of psychoanalysis.
