1st Edition

Vocational Education of Female Entrepreneurs in China A multitheoretical and multidimensional analysis of successful businesswomen's everyday lives

By Mary Ann Maslak Copyright 2015
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings. Calling on varied, pertinent social theories, the book examines profitable businesses operated by Dongxiang Muslim women in the southern Gansu province of northwestern China. The author explains the multifaceted formula... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Working Women: The Dongxiang Entrepreneurs, Chapter 2: Framing the Field: An Interdisciplinary, Multitheoretical Framework for Women's Entrepreneurship

Chapter 3: The Institution of Ethnicity and the Language of Identity for the Entrepreneurs

Chapter 4: Participating in Public and Private Networks: The Institutional Structure of Islam Chapter 5: Listening to Women: Voices of Informal Education in Entrepreneurship

Chapter 6: Honoring Rhetoric and Staging Practice: Policies of Yesterday & a Model for Today

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Biography

Mary Ann Maslak is a Professor of Education at St. John’s University, USA