Codes and contradictions : race, gender identity, and schooling
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Codes and contradictions : race, gender identity, and schooling
（SUNY series, power, social identity and education）
State University of New York Press, c2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index
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Description
This book examines the variations in the constitution of female gender in a group of young working class women of African American, Latina, U.S., Puerto Rican, and white European backgrounds who are enrolled in an alternative high school for students at risk of academic failure. It then analyzes the school processes that impact on the shaping of the young women's gender identities and provides evidence that female gender identity among various racial or ethnic backgrounds can be very dissimilar. It also illustrates the enormous power of schools to re-orient young women who have previous experiences of academic failure to view education as crucial to attaining their future goals.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Social Class, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Schooling: A Theoretical Overview
Chapter 3
The Social, Economic, and Educational Status of African American, Latina, and White Women in the United States
Chapter 4
Young White Working-Class Women: Envisioning Adult Lives
Chapter 5
Young Women of African American and Puerto Rican Descent: Anticipating Lives As Adult Women
Chapter 6
Young Women of Dominican and South American Descent: Constructing Possibilities for the Future
Chapter 7
Redefining Relationships to Schooling
Chapter 8
The Formal Curriculum
Chapter 9
The Social Construction of Gender Within the School
Chapter 10
Conclusions
Postscript
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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