Part 1 Woman and Her education in Poland in the years 1918-1989: Introducation on the Polish Part of the Book; Chapter 1 Ups and downs in the education of polish women in the interwar period (1918-1939): The evolution of the Role Model of a Polish woman in the 19th and 20th Centuries; The Ideal of a Polish Woman in the Interwar Period; The School System for Girls in Interwar Poland (1918-1939); The Contribution of Women's Organisations to Creating of the Ideal of a Polish Woman; Chapter 2 A polish woman during world war II and german and soviet occupation: Women Enter New Roles; War and Its Atrocities and The Psyche of Women; The Vision of a Polish Woman in the Programmes of Main Political Parties of the Polish Underground; Chapter 3 Education of women in Poland after world war II (1945-1989): Political Changes and the Creation of a New Ideal of a Woman; Secondary and Vocational Schools for Girls in Poland in 1945-1989; Transformation of the Ideal of a Polish Woman in the Polish People's Republic and Its Characteristuc Stages (as Presented by the State-Controlle Mass Media). Part 2 The process of gender construction in sex-segreated and coeducational grammar schools. The case of Swaden 1927-1960: Introduction to the Swedish part of the book. 1. education, social justice and social officiency. A historical background; Grammar school teachers and the primacy of talent; The construction of gender in sex-segregated and coeducational schools; The meaning of gender instudents' societies; Gender and space in grammar schools.