Codes and contradictions
Subtitle: race, gender identity, and schooling
By: Jeanne Drysdale Weiler.
Series: SUNY series, power, social identity, and education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Women -- Education -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies; Women -- United States -- Identity -- Case studies; Race awareness -- United States -- Case studies; Feminism and education -- United States
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "This book examines the variations in the constitution of female gender in a group of young working-class women of African American, Latina, U.S., Puerto Rican, and white European backgrounds who are enrolled in alternative high school for students at risk of academic failure. It then analyzes the school processes that impact the shaping of the young women's gender identities and provides evidence that female gender identity among various racial or ethnic backgrounds can be very dissimilar.

It also illustrates the enormous power of schools to re-orient young women who have previous experiences of academic failure to view education as crucial to attaining their future goals."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245)  and index.