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9780415910125

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415910125

  • ISBN10:

    0415910129

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-05-21
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

School-smart and Mother-wiseillustrates 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

Acknowledgments ix(4)
Preface xiii
One Becoming Somebody
1(12)
Two Stories From The Field
13(10)
Three Schoolsmart and Motherwise
23(14)
Four Childhood Ambitions
37(16)
Five Storied Selves and School Mission
53(20)
Six Teachers and Their Pets
73(18)
Seven Schools and Mothers
91(16)
Eight The Push and Pull of School
107(6)
Nine Lessons from the Women's Stories
113(14)
Notes 127(20)
References 147(14)
Index 161

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