ABSTRACT
The term ‘sociology of women’s education’ was coined by Madeleine Arnot (then writing as MacDonald, 1980) to refer to feminist scholarship within the sociology of education. As an academic subject, it has developed since the mid-1970s, when the ideas of the second wave of feminism were increasingly influencing the thinking of many academic women. Since 1981, I have been designing and teaching undergraduate courses in the sociology of women’s education in a New Zealand university. In this chapter, I draw on this experience to address some broader pedagogical problems which have emerged as common concerns amongst many of us who ‘network’ internationally as feminist sociologists and teacher-educators.
