Schoolsmart and motherwise : working-class women's identity and schooling
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Schoolsmart and motherwise : working-class women's identity and schooling
(Perspectives on gender)
Routledge, 1997
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School smart and mother wise
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-160) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women--black and white, rural and urban, southern and northern--recount their childhood experiences, describing the circumstances that led them to drop out of school. Now enrolled in adult education programs, they seek more than a diploma: respect, recognition, and a public identity. Drawing upon the life stories of these women, Wendy Luttrell sensitively describes and analyzes the politics and psychodynamics that shape working-class life, schooling, and identity. She examines the paradox of women's education, particularly the relationship between schooling and mothering, and offers practical suggestions for school reform.
Table of Contents
- Chapter One Becoming Somebody
- Chapter Two Stories from the Field
- Chapter Three Schoolsmart and Motherwise
- Chapter Four Childhood Ambitions
- Chapter Five Storied Selves and School Mission
- Chapter Six Teachers and I Their Pets
- Chapter Seven Schools and Mothers
- Chapter Eight The Push and Pull of School
- Chapter Nine Lessons from the Women's Stories
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