Girls, Women, and Education

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This seminar explores the educational lives and schooling experiences of girls and women, broadly inclusive, through ethnographic studies conducted in the U.S. and various regions of the world. Drawing on the anthropology of education and decolonial feminist theories, we ask: How do girls, women, and gender non-conforming people construct ways of knowing through prisms of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, class, nation, and citizenship? In what ways do gendered narratives of development and risk, and forms of structural violence, shape their educational experiences and futures? Importantly, we consider girls and women as active learners and educators who craft their own lives and literacies across home, school, and community. We will identify diverse modes of feminist praxis and the possibilities for liberatory education.