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' … How Am I Going to Pass This "Audition"?' Shame and Respectability among Ethiopian Adolescent Girls -- Dialogue with an Invitation to Expand Occupational Aspirations
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Oppenhaim-Shachar, Sigal – Gender and Education, 2019
The responsiveness of at-risk adolescent Ethiopian girls to the contents of a workshop promoting their occupational aspirations was found to be related to their belief in their ability to negotiate the unwelcome ethno-racial gaze of Israeli society. This belief is closely tied to the way they perceive and experience their ethno-racial blackness --…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Females
Girl Number 20 Revisited: Feminist Literacies in New Hard Times
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Gonick, Marnina – Gender and Education, 2007
This paper revisits the question of "voice" in the context of neo-liberal social and educational reform. "Voice" has been one of the key concepts of feminist and critical pedagogies in the theory and practice of producing social transformation. I argue in this paper, that the political effectiveness of this concept needs to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Figurative Language, Educational Change
English-in-the-Workplace for Garment Workers: A Feminist Project?
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Harper, Helen; And Others – Gender and Education, 1996
Examines the connection between an English-in-the-workplace (EWP) class and the linguistic behavior of immigrant women garment factory employees. Results suggest that newly acquired English skills may be reinforcing linguistic behavior that reconstitutes traditional relations between workers and management. However, EWP does not appear to empower…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Criticism, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes