Learning from the margins
Subtitle: young women, social exclusion, and education
By: edited by Julie McLeod and Andrea Allard.
Contributors: McLeod, Julie, 1958-; Allard, Andrea C.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415411332
Subjects: Youth with social disabilities; Teenagers with social disabilities; Young women -- Social conditions; Teenage girls -- Social conditions; Youth with social disabilities -- Education; Teenagers with social disabilities -- Education; Marginality, Social; Educational sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New times, old times, and researching young women "on the margins" / Julie McLeod and Andrea Allard; title: "The stigma that goes with living here" : social-spatial vulnerability in poor neighbourhoods / Deborah Warr; title: Female youth homelessness in urban Canada : space, representation, and the contemporary female subject / Jo-Anne Dillabough and Anna Van Der Meulen; title: Inventing adulthoods : a biographical approach to understanding young lives / Rachel Thomson; title: Cross-generational conversations : talking about school and family / Von Sanderson; title: "You cannot just sit there and just accept what they say" : ethnic minority Indian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia / Cynthia Joseph; title: Social class, femininity, and school sport / Jan Wright and Gabrielle O'Flynn; title: Policy hysteria in action : teenage parents at secondary school in Australia / Jennifer Angwin and Annelies Kamp; title: The lived experience of Australian government mutual obligations policies : creating shadow and preferred policy subjects / Jan Edwards; title: The relational dimension of "effective schooling" for marginalized young women / Kitty te Riele; title: "At school I am just like everyone else" : teenage pregnancy, schooling, and educational outcomes / Lyn Harrison and Geoff Shacklock 220; title: Assembling selves : "choice" and the classed and gendered schooling experiences of "marginalized" young women / Andrea C. Allard; title: Generations of hope : questions about justice and the everyday as mothers and daughters look to a better life / Julie McLeod.