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School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling (Perspectives on Gender)
Schoolsmart and Motherwise WorkingClass Women's Identity and Schooling - Perspectives on Gender Author:Wendy Luttrell Schoolsmart and Motherwise 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 en... more »rolled 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.« less