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Maria Tamboukou - Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education) - 9781137490148 - V9781137490148
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Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education)

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Description for Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education) Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Num Pages: 220 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBL; JNAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 218 x 2. Weight in Grams: 430.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137490148
SKU
V9781137490148
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Maria Tamboukou
Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK, and co-editor of the journal Gender and Education. Her research focuses on philosophy and epistemology in the social sciences, feminist narrative analytics, and archival research. She has published widely on feminist and cultural studies, and is the author of Sewing, Writing and Fighting: Radical Practices in ... Read more

Reviews for Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education)
“Tamboukou’s fascinating, thought-provoking book makes an invaluable contribution to the field of gender and feminist studies by identifying and documenting women workers’ neglected role in the history of the labour movement. Women’s Workers’ Education, Life Narratives and Politics will be of special interest not only to scholars in feminist history and gender studies but also to those interested in labour ... Read more

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