School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling - Rilegato

Luttrell, Wendy

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ISBN 10: 0415910110 ISBN 13: 9780415910118

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

Riassunto

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.

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at Duke University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415910110
• ISBN 13: 9780415910118
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 184