Coming of Age in Times of Crisis

JANISE HURTIG is a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

• PART I: GENDER LESSONS IN TIMES OF CRISIS Preface: The Place of Crisis and the Crisis of Place Gender Lessons: An Introduction Coming of Age in Timotes: A Certain Place in Uncertain Times PART II: DOING GENDER: THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF NEGLIGENT PATRIARCHY Gender, Practice and Place: An Introduction Practising Gender: Street and House Shame and Machismo: The Ideological Work of Negligent Patriarchy PART III: GENDER, PLACE AND PATRIARCHY AT SCHOOL The Social Meanings of Schooling Pedagogy and Patriarchy History Lessons, English Lessons, and the Lessons of Gender and Nation Myth of (Fe)male Achievement From Gender Lessons to Feminist Interventions: A Reflective Afterword Bibliography

'Through Hurtig's deft and passionate ethnography, the young men and women of Santa Lucia, Venezuela will quickly gain a prominent, if disquieting, place in the anthropological understanding of schooling and youth identity. Hurtig plumbs the particular, small contradictions of youth's educational lives to illuminate the big contradictions of global political economy, gender, and schooling. A stunning piece of longitudinal educational research - evocative, heartbreaking, but ultimately optimistic.' - Bradley A.U. Levinson, Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology, Indiana University, USA; Lead Editor of Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy 'In this vivid account of secondary school students' experiences of crisis in the Venezuelan Andes, Hurtig demonstrates close connections among state-society relations at local, national, and international levels. Hurtig's skillful analysis of the gendered dimensions of family life and secondary schooling sheds new light on questions about educational processes and social change. A must read for comparative educators, anthropologists of education, and everyone interested in schooling around the world.' - Amy Stambach, author of Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa 'Hurtig cogently argues for 'patriarchy' as a useful analytic concept, and specifically 'negligent patriarchy,' as a cultural dynamic entailing both the production of desires and the normalized expectation of disappointment. This conceptual work enables her to diagnose gendered contradictions grounded in inequality and exploitation imbricated across house, street, nation, and imperialist realms. This is feminist ethnography at its most powerful.' - Lessie Jo Frazier, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana University, USA