Women and Education in Latin America : : Knowledge, Power, and Change / / Nelly P. Stromquist.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Stromquist, Nelly P.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bonder, Gloria,; Braslavsky, Cecilia,; Catanzarite, Lisa,; Cortina, Regina,; Fink, Marcy,; Mendiola, Haydée M.,; Rosemberg, Fulvia,; Sara-Lafosse, Violeta,; Schmukler, Beatriz,; Stromquist, Nelly P.,; Valdes, Ximena,; Viveros, Elena,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Women and Change in the Developing World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

This ethnography investigates the meaning of learning in the lives of ultraorthodox Jewish women. Presenting a vivid portrayal of the Gur Hasidic community in Israel, El-Or explores the relationship between women's literacy and their subordination. What she finds is a paradox: ultraorthodox women are taught to be ignorant. And they perform the role of being ignorant as only educated women can. Preserving their social and emotional ties with their community, these women are at the same time able to observe their surroundings and even their own worlds as if from the "outside." This duality creates the social and personal conditions that allow the women to accept their subordination and help to perpetuate it, even at the end of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I Education, the State, and the Economy -- 1 Women and Literacy in Latin America -- 2 Education, Democratization, and Inequality in Brazil -- 3 Educational Legitimation of Women's Economic Subordination in Argentina -- 4 Gender, Education, and Employment in Central America: Whose Work Counts? -- PART 2 Women and the Formal Education System -- 5 Coeducational Settings and Educational and Social Outcomes in Peru -- 6 Gender and Power in the Teachers' Union of Mexico -- 7 Gender Inequalities and the Expansion of Higher Education in Costa Rica -- 8 Feminist Reflections on the Politics of the Peruvian University -- PART 3 Adult Women and Educational Efforts -- 9 Women and Popular Education in Latin America -- 10 Vocational Training and Job Opportunities for Women in Northeast Brazil -- PART 4 Making Changes -- 11 Altering Sexual Stereotypes Through Teacher Training -- 12 Women and the Microsocial Democratization of Everyday Life -- 13 The Women's Rural School: An Empowering Educational Experience -- Contributors -- Index -- About the Book