structure and organization. This was a result of developing workplace technology ( Cancian 1986 ). Increasing agricultural machinery contributed to a workforce reduction, while increasing employment opportunities were available in the developing factories in
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“Like Alice, I was Brave”
The Girl in the Text in Olemaun’s Residential School Narratives
Roxanne Harde
churches and schools, different technologies and materials, much of which these families find compelling and attractive. While the Inuvialuit, like other First Peoples, are willing to welcome and work with the settlers, to incorporate their innovations into
Girls with Disabilities in the Global South
Rethinking the Politics of Engagement
Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Liem is an emerging socio-economic region located in the west of Hanoi. It has undergone rapid urbanization over the last few years. The process of urbanization has been associated with the technologies of population management constructed through, for
Mixed Message Media
Girls’ Voices and Civic Engagement in Student Journalism
Piotr S. Bobkowski and Genelle I. Belmas
support in many schools, including being allocated designated teachers, instructional space, and technology; each year thousands of girls in the United States participate. More than 90 percent of secondary schools in the United States offer curricular or
“I’m No Donna Reed”
Postfeminist Rhetoric in Christian At-Home Daughterhood Texts
Elizabeth Shively
label is scary. Marissa Mayer, CEO of the multinational technology company Yahoo! is quoted as saying, “I don’t think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if
“This Is My Story”
The Reclaiming of Girls’ Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s Autobiography
Rosie Walters
York University Press . 10.18574/nyu/9780814770214.001.0001 Quinby , Lee . 1992 . “ The Subject of Memoirs: The Woman Warrior’s Technology of Ideographic Selfhood .” In De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women’s Autobiography
Natalie Clark
her task she uses every resource of her present existence: technology and myth, politics and motherhood, ritual balance and clearsighted utterance, ironic comments and historical perspective (quoted in Charnley 1990: 19 ). Indigenous scholars no
Making It Up
Intergenerational Activism and the Ethics of Empowering Girls
Emily Bent
marriage, slut shaming, breast ironing, 6 sexual assault and harassment on college campuses, female genital cutting, and sexism in sports and in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In her speech, she imagined “a world
A Literacy Landscape Unresolved
Beyond the Boy Crisis and into Superhero Fiction
Michael Kehler and Jacob Cassidy
. In fact, Jason was quick to credit 1984 as “timeless” and “more applicable now [than when it was published] with all the technology that we do have.” Nor was the underlying purpose of reading in English class lost, as Selina clearly indicated that
Books Are Boring! Books Are Fun!
Boys’ Polarized Perspectives on Reading
Laura Scholes
popular literature proposing that subject choices reflect a binary divide between boys and girls ( Martino 2003 ; Millard 1997 ). That is, traditionally masculine subjects have included the sciences, technology, and business studies, and feminine subjects