Mothering for Schooling

Name: Mothering for Schooling
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ISBN: 9780415950541

ISBN-10: 0415950546

ISBN-13: 9780415950541

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith

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This book looks at the relationship between the work women do with and for their children in relation to schooling. The authors break their analysis down by class lines, examining the ways in which women's economic positions further affects the experiences their children have. While many books have looked at the relationship between class differences and schooling itself, Smith and Griffith's work stands apart in its examination of the hidden gendered labor behind the scenes of school success and failure. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which inequalities…

Book details

List price: $63.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Women and the Making of the New Middle Class



The Mothering Discourse



Time, Scheduling, and Coordinating the Uncoordinated



Complementary Educational Work



Complementary Educational Work: Employed Mothers and Fathers



Uptown and Downtown in Maltby: School and Board Perspectives



Inequality and Educational Change


Endnotes


Bibliography


Index