Synopses & Reviews
A unique volume that addresses issues of gender in education by examining the work experiences and policies affecting women and teaching in Latin America, North American, and parts of Europe, with a focus on the social construction of women teachers.
Review
"A sophisticated and highly readable book on the causes and consequences of the feminization of teaching in Catholic countries in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, along with Britain and Canada. The diversity and plurality of social contexts highlighted in the case studies provide much-needed additions to work on the earlier feminization of teaching in English-speaking countries."--Myra Strober, Professor of Education and Professor (by courtesy) of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
About the Author
Regina Cortina is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sonsoles San Román is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Universided Autónoma de Madrid.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Regina Cortina and Sonsoles San Román *
Part I: The Daily Encounter of Teachers with a Feminized Profession * Professional Identities of Teachers during the Social Transformation Toward Democracy in Spain--
Sonsoles San Román * Collegiality and Gender in the Elementary School Teachers' Workplace Cultures: A Tale of Two Projects--Elisabeth Richards and Sandra Acker * State, Gender, and Class in the Social Construction of Argentine Women Teachers--Graciela Morgade * Part II: Multidisciplinary Interpretation of the Feminization of Teaching * Women Teachers in Mexico: Asymmetries of Power in Public Education--Regina Cortina * Educational Policies and Gender: An Assessment of the1990s in Brazil--Fúlvia Rosemberg * The Feminization of the Teaching Profession in Belgium in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries--Marc Depaepe, Hilde Lauwers, and Frank Simon * Part III: The Feminization of a Profession at the Turn of the Twentieth Century * Women and Teaching in Costa Rica in the Early Twentieth Century--Iván Molina * Society and Curriculum in the Feminization of the Teaching Profession in the Dominican Republic, 1860-1935--Juan Alfonseca * Teachers of Yesteryear: A Study of Women Educators During Porfiriato--Luz Elena Galván