1st Edition

Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools Educational Equity and Gender

By Susan McCullough Copyright 2020
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight into the experiences of young Latina women and their teachers in a North American middle school. Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools details how students navigate questions of gender, gender discrimination, and gender relations in the context of post-feminism, and in view... Read more

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework

Chapter 3 "You know it’s really hard right?" Friendships, relational aggression and sexualization of Latina girls in middle school

Chapter 4 "You know how the boys are in charge?" Boys’ dominance and gender segregation at FDMS

Chapter 5 "What message are you sending?" Response, resistance or agency

Chapter 6 "I hope nobody feels harassed" Teacher perception of gender relations and gender essentialism at FDMS

Chapter 7 Conclusion

Bibliography

Biography

Susan McCullough is Acting Program Director for Art Education at Queens College, City University of New York.