Structure and Agency of Women's Education

Mary Ann Maslak is Associate Professor of Education at St. John's University and author of Daughters of the Tharu: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls.

• List of Illustrations IntroductionMary Ann Maslak PART I Structure and Agency of Educational Policy for Adolescent Girls and Adult Women 1. The Intersection of Public Policies and Gender: Understanding State Action in EducationNelly P. Stromquist 2. Assessing the Status and Prospects of Women’s Empowerment through Education: A Case Study of Women Students at the University of The GambiaCaroline Manion 3. Structure and Agency in India’s Teacher Education Policy: Women Teachers’ Progress through a Critical Feminist LensSandra L. Stacki 4. Feast or Famine for Female Education in Kenya? A Structural Approach to Gender EquityLucy Mule PART II Structure and Agency of International Forces for Female Education 5. Promoting Girls’ Education in Africa: Evidence from the Field between 1996 and 2003David W. Chapman and Shirley J. Miske 6. The Dance of Agency and Structure in an Empowerment Educational Program in Mali and the SudanKaren Monkman, Rebecca Miles, and Peter B. Easton 7. Res Publica Revisited: Gendered Agency through Education in NGOs Cathryn Magno 8. Their One Best Hope: Educating Daughters in ChinaVilma Seeberg PART III Social Relations as Structural Parameters Defining Females’ Agency in Education 9. Female Classroom Assistants: Agents of Change in Refugee Classrooms in West Africa?Jackie Kirk and Rebecca Winthrop 10. A World Culture of Equality? The Institutional Structure of Schools and Cross-National Gender Differences in Academic Achievement Alexander W. Wiseman 11. Looking Beyond the Household: The Importance of Community-Level Factors in Understanding Underrepresentation of Girls in Indian EducationAmita Chudgar PART IV Women and the Research Setting: The Intersection of Structure and Agency in Methodologies 12. Life’s Structures and the Individual’s Agency: Making Sense of Women’s WordsFlavia Ramos 13. Policy as Practice, Agency as Voice, Research as Intervention: Imag(in)g Girls’ Education in ChinaHeidi Ross AppendixAbbreviated Overview of Selected Policy Recommendations on Education and Training of Adolescent Girls and Adult Women ContributorsIndex

"This particular approach to analyzing gender inequality provides a welcome new framework to the literature on gender and education. The varied analyses … allow student readers to grasp the multifaceted meaning of this important concept." — CHOICE"The intersection of structure and agency in looking at women's education worldwide is challenging, unique, and intellectually stimulating. The very organization and structure of the book forces the reader to consider new dimensions and not traditional frameworks." — Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, coeditor of A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women