School-smart and Mother-wise School-smart and Mother-wise
Perspectives on Gender

School-smart and Mother-wise

Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling

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Publisher 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.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2016
4 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
184
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SIZE
952.5
KB

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