Whose School Is It?: Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City

by Rhoda H. Halperin

Book Overview

Whose School Is It?: Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City is a success story with roadblocks, crashes, and detours. Rhoda Halperin uses feminist theorist and activist Gloria Anzald a's ideas about borderlands created by colliding cultures to deconstruct the creation and advancement of a public community charter school in a diverse, long-lived urban neighborhood on the Ohio River. Class, race, and gender mix with age, local knowledge,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292709919
• ISBN13: 9780292709911
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.0"