Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics : Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies / by Maria Tamboukou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tamboukou, Maria., Author.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, 2524-6453

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Educational sociology.

Political sociology.

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Education.

Political Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Education.

Political Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 220 p. 7 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book highlights the catalytic role of workers’ education in mobilizing political activism and women’s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers’ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on the letters and papers of Fannia Mary Cohn, a prominent figure in the US garment industry’s trade union movement, it discusses and further theorizes the importance of gender as an analytical category in the forceful interaction of labour, education and migration histories. The significance of the visual turn in feminist narrative analytics is considered and the book puts forward a compelling case for the contribution of writing working women in the intellectual and cultural life of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Assemblages of Institutional Histories and Life Narratives

Chapter 2. The Self as/in Dialogue

Chapter 3. Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics in Women Workers' Education

Chapter 4. Visual Technologies and Other Archives

Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Adventure of Women Workers' Education.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137490155

1137490152