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WHOSE SCHOOL IS IT?
WOMEN, MEMORY, AND PRACTICE IN THE CITY |
| By: |
Rhoda H. Halperin |
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Hardback |
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£30.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
029270934X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780292709348 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2006 |
| Series: |
Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
Uses feminist theorist and activist Gloria Anzaldua's ideas about borderlands created by colliding cultures to deconstruct the creation of a public community charter school in a diverse neighborhood on the Ohio River. The author mixes class, race, and gender with age, local knowledge, and place authenticity to create a story of sheer stubbornness. |
| Synopsis: |
"Whose School Is It?: Women, Memory, and Practice in the City" is a success story with roadblocks, crashes, and detours. Rhoda Halperin uses feminist theorist and activist Gloria Anzaldua's ideas about borderlands created by colliding cultures to deconstruct the creation and advancement of a public community charter school in a diverse, long-lived urban neighborhood on the Ohio River. Class, race, and gender mix with age, local knowledge, and place authenticity to create a page-turning story of grit, humour, and sheer stubbornness. The school has grown and flourished in the face of daunting market forces, class discrimination, and an increasingly unfavourable national climate for charter schools. Borderlands are tense spaces. The school is a microcosm of the global city. Many theoretical strands converge in this book - feminist theory, ideas about globalization, class analysis, and accessible narrative writing - to present some new approaches in urban anthropology. The book is multi-voiced and nuanced in ways that provide authenticity and texture to the real circumstances of urban lives.At the same time, identities are threatened as community practices clash with rules and regulations imposed by outsiders. Since it is based on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in the community and the city, "Whose School Is It?" brings unique long-term perspectives on continuities and disjunctures in cities. Halperin's work as researcher and advocate also provides insider perspectives that are rare in the literature of urban anthropology. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Texas Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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