Wise and Foolish Virgins: White Women at Work in the Feminized World of Primary School Teaching

Sally Galman

doi:10.5771/9780739147733

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2012
Copyright Year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-4771-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-4773-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 226
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. Ch01. The Windy Side of Care No access
2. Ch02. No Other but a Woman’s Reason No access
1. Ch03. Seeking to Understand No access
2. Ch04. The Moral Careers of Wives, Mothers, and Others No access
3. Ch05. Divining the Hand of Destiny No access
4. Ch06. Planning for Temporary Experience and Other Horizons No access
1. Ch07. For Goodness Sake, Consider What You Do No access
2. Ch08. Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity No access
Conclusion No access Pages 201 - 220
Index No access Pages 221 - 224
About the Author No access Pages 225 - 226