Introduction 1. Masculinity and Femininity: Ideas are Real 2. Growing Up Male 3. Through the Looking Glass: Gender Socialisation in a Primary School 4. Bound by Norms and Out of Bounds: Experiences of PAGFB (Persons Assigned Gender Female at Birth) Within the Formal Education System 5. Men, Women and the Embattled Family 6. Strishiksha, or Education for Women 7. Role Models: Educated Muslim Women--Real and Ideal 8. Partition and Family Strategies: Gender-Education Linkages Among Punjabi Women in Delhi 9. Unequal Schooling as a Factor in the Reproduction of Social Inequality in India 10. From Access to Attainment: Girls' Schooling in Contemporary India 11. Negotiation and Compromise: Gender and Government Elementary Education 12. The Contested Terrain of Reproduction: Class and Gender in Schooling in India 13. Serving the Nation: Gender and Family Values in Military School 14. Chhadi Lage Chham Chham, Vidya Yeyi Gham Gham (The Harder the Stick Beats, the Faster the Flow of Knowledge): Dalit Women's Struggle for Education 15. Gender and Curriculum 16. Education as Trutiya Ratna : Towards Phule-Ambedkarite Feminist Pedagogical Practice.