ABSTRACT
A pedagogy for girls: when it has taken us well over a century to appropriate for our half of the species the educational treatment that western cultures give the male half? A pedagogy for girls: when females come in so many classes, races, and ethnicities? The case for a pedagogy of girls’ own would have to be very strong, indeed. Besides demonstrating a compelling need, it would have to dispel fears that a gender-based educational system would inextricably be linked to a gender-based division of social roles and societal labor. It would also have to put to rest the inevitable charges of essentialism and false generalization. And supposing the case can be made: in view of western culture’s education-gender system, is a pedagogy for girls enough?
