Becoming Women/Becoming Workers: Identity Formation in a French Vocational SchoolThis book traces the experiences of young French and Algerian women students in a Parisian vocational school--how they negotiate their class, gender, and ethnic/racial identities in relation to school, family, romance, and future work in a changing and unpromising economy. Drawn from classroom observations and personal interviews, the book provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the complex network of cultural and historical discourses, limitations, and expectations that form the students' present lives and future outlook. The author links the micro and macro levels of her analysis by grounding her study in the nature of the French school, the discursive boundaries of French society, and the volatile French economy. The book contributes to an overall understanding of the processes of identity formation; class, race/ethnicity, and gender intersections; and women's responses to schooling and education. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Why Focus on Farida and Alexandra? | 2 |
Epistemological Considerations | 6 |
The Study | 7 |
Analysis and Organization of the Book | 10 |
Theoretical Framework | 15 |
From Reproduction to ? | 17 |
Taking Gender Seriously | 18 |
Conclusion | 74 |
Negotiating Boundaries Everyday Practices | 77 |
Negotiating the LearningTeaching Encounter | 78 |
Introducing Fragments of the Self in the School | 87 |
Introducing Sexualized Selves in the School | 89 |
Conclusion | 92 |
Schooling and Education Students Perspectives | 95 |
Orientation Procedures | 97 |
And RaceEthnicity | 22 |
Beyond Class comma Gender comma Race comma | 23 |
Language and Subjectivity | 24 |
Background of the Study | 27 |
The Nature of Educational Differentiation in France | 30 |
Massification of the French School System | 31 |
Differentiation and EthnicityRace | 33 |
Economic Growth Degradation of Work and Fordism | 34 |
Schooling for a Modernizing Economy | 36 |
Economic Recession Deindustrialization and PostFordism | 37 |
Revalorization or Formation of Marginal Workers? | 41 |
Conclusion | 44 |
Class Gender and Race in the School Defining the Boundaries | 45 |
EthnicRacial Stratification in the School | 48 |
Class Stratification in the School | 54 |
Failure or Success? | 57 |
Conclusions | 58 |
Class Gender and Race in the School Silencing and Marginalization | 61 |
Spatial Arrangement of the School | 62 |
Disciplinary Practices in the School | 66 |
Marginalization Techniques in the School | 70 |
On Being a BEP Student | 104 |
Conclusion | 112 |
Visions for the Future Work Marriage and Romance | 115 |
On Being a Secretary | 119 |
On Marriage Romance Domesticity and Wage Labor | 124 |
Conclusion | 132 |
The Social Construction of Marginal Identities1 | 135 |
Algerian Migrants and the French School | 136 |
The French Media Girls of Algerian Descent and the School | 139 |
Work of Identity Formation in the School | 142 |
Conclusion | 153 |
Summary and Conclusions | 155 |
Theoretical Implications | 161 |
Limitations of the Study and Implications for Future Research | 163 |
Its Potential and Its Limit | 165 |
Methodological Appendix | 169 |
Notes | 179 |
Bibliography | 193 |
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