Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools: Educational Equity and Gender

✍ Scribed by Susan McCullough

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 167
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight into the experiences of young Latina women and their teachers in a North American middle school.

Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools details how students navigate questions of gender, gender discrimination, and gender relations in the context of post-feminism, and in view of widespread claims that advocacy for girls and women has been outmoded by anti-discriminatory legislation. Drawing on an ethnographic study that focuses on gender segregation and dominance, relational identities, and the role of teachers in reinforcing gender dynamics, the text deftly demonstrates the effect of postfeminist policy and ideology on gender equity and achievement in public schools. In particular, the text illustrates that young Latina women continue to face both physical and verbal harassment on a daily basis, which is often overlooked by school faculty and administrators. A powerful and timely text, the volume advocates for action to counter school-based gender discrimination.

This book will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, policy makers, libraries in the field of gender and sexuality in education, gender studies, secondary education and urban education.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Framework
3 “You Know It’s Really Hard Right?” Friendships, Relational Aggression and Sexualization of Latina Girls in Middle School
4 “You Know How the Boys Are in Charge?” Boys’ Dominance and Gender Segregation at FDMS
5 “What Message Are You Sending?” Response, Resistance or Agency
6 “I Hope Nobody Feels Harassed” Teacher Perception of Gender Relations and Gender Essentialism at FDMS
7 Conclusion
References
Index