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

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.

Author: Wendy Luttrell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/21/1997
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780415910125