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Wise and Foolish Virgins
White Women at Work in the Feminized World of Primary School Teaching
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2012
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Wise and Foolish Virgins: White Women at Work in the Feminized World of Primary School Teaching by Sally Campbell Galman asks the question, what does it mean for an entire profession to be numerically dominated by white women, and what is the relationship between teacher preparation and professional feminization? The book tells the story of three very different teacher preparation programs, explores the hopes and struggles of the mostly white, female students in those programs, and opens a window upon the closed world of teacher educators themselves who must straddle multiple worlds and multiple masters. With one foot in ancient allegory and the other in contemporary popular culture, this text addresses the complex ecologies of gender identity and negotiation between student teachers, teacher educators, and policy-makers against the politicized backdrop of pop culture “feminization” and the unique contours of homogenization in the emerging elementary teaching force.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4771-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4773-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
226
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Introduction No access
Ch01. The Windy Side of Care No access
Ch02. No Other but a Woman’s Reason No access
Ch03. Seeking to Understand No access
Ch04. The Moral Careers of Wives, Mothers, and Others No access
Ch05. Divining the Hand of Destiny No access
Ch06. Planning for Temporary Experience and Other Horizons No access
Ch07. For Goodness Sake, Consider What You Do No access
