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- catalog abstract "In the last twenty-five years women have made remarkable progress in access to the classroom and broken new ground in educational opportunity, yet educational equity remains elusive and politically contested. THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA collects essays that reveal the complex changes in women's education throughout the world and together offer the first comprehensive assessment of what has been attempted, what remains to be done, and what the options are for reform. The volume presents the voices of Third World women and men relating their efforts to improve the position of women through education. They raise important questions for readers from both high- and low-income countries, questions about whether formal or nonformal education will best serve women's needs; whether the state or private initiatives are most likely to succeed in raising women's status through the delivery of transforming knowledge; and whether Western dreams of modernization have any relevance to non-Western societies. A diversity of countries is covered, including India, Pakistan, Korea, the Philippines, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. Each contributor locates the issues surrounding women's education in the larger national context, thus unraveling the matrix that links gender and education to race, ethnicity, social class, and political change. Two essays offer analysis of the worldwide movement for women's education from a comparative perspective and raise fundamental questions about the relevance of the educational models, approaches, and assumptions currently in use.".
- catalog contributor b4576227.
- catalog contributor b4576228.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "A survey of gender issues and educational development in Asia / Vina Mazumdar -- Women's education in India / Neera Desai -- Healing the wounds of development / Devaki Jain -- Women's education in Pakistan / Farida Shaheed and Khawar Mumtaz -- Work, education, and women's gains : the Korean experience / In-ho Lee -- Women's education as an instrument for change : the case of the Philippines / Amaryllis Tiglao Torres -- An overview of women's education in Africa / Dorothy L. Njeuma -- Enhancing women's participation in the science-based curriculum : the case of Kenya / Kabiru Kinyanjui --Educational expansion, cost consideration, and curriculum development in Zimbabwe / Fay Chung -- An overview of women's education in Latin America and the Caribbean / Lourdes Arizpe -- Citizenship and education in Peru and Mexico : political challenges for the 1990's / Susan C. Bourque -- Persistent inequalities in women's education in Peru / Hernán Fernández -- Alternative education for women in Peru / Virginia Vargas -- Education, race, and inequality in Brazil / Fúlvia Rosemberg -- The economics of women's schooling / T. Paul Schultz -- Rethinking the impact of women's education / Jill Ker Conway.".
- catalog description "In the last twenty-five years women have made remarkable progress in access to the classroom and broken new ground in educational opportunity, yet educational equity remains elusive and politically contested. THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA collects essays that reveal the complex changes in women's education throughout the world and together offer the first comprehensive assessment of what has been attempted, what remains to be done, and what the options are for reform. The volume presents the voices of Third World women and men relating their efforts to improve the position of women through education. They raise important questions for readers from both high- and low-income countries, questions about whether formal or nonformal education will best serve women's needs; whether the state or private initiatives are most likely to succeed in raising women's status through the delivery of transforming knowledge; and whether Western dreams of modernization have any relevance to non-Western societies. A diversity of countries is covered, including India, Pakistan, Korea, the Philippines, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. Each contributor locates the issues surrounding women's education in the larger national context, thus unraveling the matrix that links gender and education to race, ethnicity, social class, and political change. Two essays offer analysis of the worldwide movement for women's education from a comparative perspective and raise fundamental questions about the relevance of the educational models, approaches, and assumptions currently in use.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "viii, 261 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Politics of women's education.".
- catalog identifier "0472104462 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Politics of women's education.".
- catalog isPartOf "Women and culture series".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Politics of women's education.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog spatial "Asia.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America.".
- catalog subject "376/.9172/4 20".
- catalog subject "LC2302 .P65 1993".
- catalog subject "Women Education Political aspects Africa.".
- catalog subject "Women Education Political aspects Asia.".
- catalog subject "Women Education Political aspects Latin America.".
- catalog subject "Women Education Social aspects Africa.".
- catalog subject "Women Education Social aspects Asia.".
- catalog subject "Women Education Social aspects Latin America.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A survey of gender issues and educational development in Asia / Vina Mazumdar -- Women's education in India / Neera Desai -- Healing the wounds of development / Devaki Jain -- Women's education in Pakistan / Farida Shaheed and Khawar Mumtaz -- Work, education, and women's gains : the Korean experience / In-ho Lee -- Women's education as an instrument for change : the case of the Philippines / Amaryllis Tiglao Torres -- An overview of women's education in Africa / Dorothy L. Njeuma -- Enhancing women's participation in the science-based curriculum : the case of Kenya / Kabiru Kinyanjui --Educational expansion, cost consideration, and curriculum development in Zimbabwe / Fay Chung -- An overview of women's education in Latin America and the Caribbean / Lourdes Arizpe -- Citizenship and education in Peru and Mexico : political challenges for the 1990's / Susan C. Bourque -- Persistent inequalities in women's education in Peru / Hernán Fernández -- Alternative education for women in Peru / Virginia Vargas -- Education, race, and inequality in Brazil / Fúlvia Rosemberg -- The economics of women's schooling / T. Paul Schultz -- Rethinking the impact of women's education / Jill Ker Conway.".
- catalog title "The Politics of women's education : perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin America / edited by Jill Ker Conway and Susan C. Bourque.".
- catalog type "text".