Full Description
This book offers an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights by examining issues related to gender, race, sexuality, disability, and social class. Written as a companion to the very successful U.K. version, this volume reflects the economic, political, social, and cultural changes in educational and political policy and practice in the United States. Offering a comprehensive look at these areas, this book is an essential resource across a wide range of disciplines and for all those interested in education, social policy, and equality.
Contents
Foreword: Democracy Under Siege and the Rise of the Unthinkable; Introduction: Equality and Human Rights in the United States today1. Feminism and Socialism: Looking Back, Looking Ahead; 2. Gender and Education: The Revolutionary 'Force and Reason' of Women; 3. U. S. History Breathes and Bleeds Racism; 4. Racism and Education: Failure to Achieve Democratic Aims Inclusively in Public Schooling; 5. The Making of Sexuality in the United States: Normativity, Heteropatriarchy, and Resisting the 'Euphoria' of Androcentric Logic; 6. Toward a Marxian Understanding of Sex Education Policy and Curriculum in the United States; 7. Disability Matters: A Materialist History of Disability Under U.S. Settler-Capitalism; 8. Disabling Learning Conditions: Ability-Segregated Education and the Creation of Disability; 9. Marx and the Marxist alternative to neoliberal capitalism: the case for a fully inclusive ecosocialism for today; 10. The Hidden Cost of Class Disavowal and the Case for a New Education System: Social Class and Education in the U.S.
