Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education)

This book highlights the catalytic role of workersÆ education in mobilizing political activism and womenÆs involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workersÆ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on the letters and papers of Fannia Mary Cohn, a prominent figure in the US garment industryÆs trade union movement, it discusses and further theorizes the importance of gender as an analytical category in the forceful interaction of labour, education and migration histories. The significance of the visual turn in feminist narrative analytics is considered and the book puts forward a compelling case for the contribution of writing working women in the intellectual and cultural life of the twentieth century.

• | Author: Maria Tamboukou
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Education
• | ISBN-10: 1137490144
• | ISBN-13: 9781137490148