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Wilson, Annabel; Reay, Diane; Morrin, Kirsty; Abrahams, Jessie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper examines the relationship of working-class feminist academics to the Academy. Our paper interrogates tensions between resistance and submission from the perspective of four educationally successful working-class women who have become academics. The paper starts with an overview of the state of the Academy at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Feminism, College Faculty
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Bhana, Deevia – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2008
Whenever gender violence and schooling have been the topic of South African research, the investigations focus on African boys in secondary schools. In contrast, this paper focuses on the ways in which violence is mobilized by African schoolgirls in a working-class primary school context. By drawing on selected elements of an ethnographic study of…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Ethnography, Adult Basic Education