Full Description
This book unveils women's empowerment as mothers as a notion in the school system that reinforces patriarchy rather than weakening it. It discusses how empowerment is a contested notion, even though it is mostly praised in terms of women's emancipation. This book explores the concept that although women are breastfeeding education as mothers in the neoliberal education system, they are not necessarily doing so as a self-sacrifice as one may generalize in the context of neoliberal economy. Instead, this book argues that women are doing this as a means of investment for gaining a sense of individual power, which ironically, reinforces patriarchal values. It presents demonstrative and descriptive practical incidences in the field.
Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Historical, political and social background: The neoliberal times and education.- 3. Unpaid care labour, voluntary work and motherhood.- 4. Forms of capital and parental involvement.- 5. Classroom mothers: A reserve army of labour behind the school system.- 6. School as a territory of power and classroom motherhood as a power position.- 7. Classroom motherhood as a power position.- 8. Classroom mothers and the neoliberal education : A match or a mismatch?.- 9. Bibliography.
