School-Smart and Mother-Wise

Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11096044
AutoresValerie Polakow (autor correspondente), W Luttrell (0000-0003-0981-7482)
Ano1998
Volume27
Fascículo3
Páginas242
Data de publicação1998-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2655167
OpenAlexW1970071666
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas66

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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