Women School Teachers in New Times: Some Preliminary Reflections

Nandini Manjrekar
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Nandini Manjrekar: Nandini Manjrekar is Associate Professor at School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai, India. E-mail: nandini@tiss.edu

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2013, vol. 20, issue 2, 335-356

Abstract: Women are entering the domain of school teaching in significantly high numbers at this critical moment of the fundamental restructuring of education in contemporary India. Wider structural determinants, ideologies and practices that define and regulate women teachers in the paid workforce as well as within the domestic sphere are historically related and an examination of these is critical to understanding social reproduction within the contemporary context. This article discusses the discursive and material contexts engendered by neoliberal policy reform in the education sector which are shaping and reframing the lives of women school teachers. The article argues for the need to develop a feminist understanding of these shifting realities through deeper engagement with the professional and personal lives of women teachers in relation to broader processes of social reproduction.

Keywords: Women teachers; education; social reproduction; feminist perspectives; neoliberal reforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0971521513482223

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