Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies PDF
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Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education Series Editor Yvette Taylor School of Education University of Strathclyde Glasgow United Kingdom This Series aims to provide a comprehensive space for an increasingly diverse and complex area of interdisciplinary social science research: gen- der and education. Because the field of women and gender studies is developing rapidly and becoming ‘internationalised’ – as are traditional social science disciplines such as sociology, educational studies, social geography, and so on – there is a greater need for this dynamic, global Series that plots emerging definitions and debates and monitors critical complexitiesofgenderandeducation.ThisSerieshasanexplicitlyfeminist approach and orientation and attends to key theoretical and methodolo- gicaldebates,ensuringacontinuedconversationandrelevancewithinthe well-established, inter-disciplinaryfield ofgender andeducation. TheSeriescombinesrenewedandrevitalisedfeministresearchmethods andtheorieswithemergentandsalientpublicpolicyissues.Theseinclude pre-compulsory and post-compulsory education; ‘early years’ and ‘life- long’ education; educational (dis)engagements of pupils, students and staff;trajectoriesandintersectionalinequalitiesincludingrace,class,sexu- ality,ageanddisability;policyandpracticeacrosseducationallandscapes; diversity and difference, including institutional (schools, colleges, univer- sities), locational and embodied (in ‘teacher’–‘learner’ positions); varied global activism in and beyond the classroom and the ‘public university’; educational technologies and transitions and the (ir)relevance of (in)for- maleducationalsettings;andemergenteducationalmainstreamsandmar- gins. In using a critical approach to gender and education, the Series recognises the importance of probing beyond the boundaries of specific territorial-legislative domains in order to develop a more international, intersectional focus. In addressing varied conceptual and methodological questions,theSeriescombinesanintersectionalfocusoncompeting–and sometimescolliding–strandsofeducationalprovisioningandequalityand ‘diversity’, and provides insightful reflections on the continuing critical shift of genderandfeminismwithin (andbeyond)the academy. More information aboutthisseries at http://www.springer.com/series/14626 MariaTamboukou ’ Women Workers Education, Life Narratives and Politics Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies MariaTamboukou SchoolofLaw&SocialSciences UniversityofEastLondon DocklandsCampus London,UnitedKingdom PalgraveStudiesinGenderandEducation ISBN978-1-137-49014-8 ISBN978-1-137-49015-5(eBook) DOI10.1057/978-1-137-49015-5 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016949465 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s)2017 Theauthor(s)has/haveassertedtheirright(s)tobeidentifiedastheauthor(s)ofthisworkin accordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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Coverillustration:RomanMilert/AlamyStockPhoto Printedonacid-freepaper ThisPalgraveMacmillanimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisMacmillanPublishersLtd. Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:TheCampus,4CrinanStreet,London,N19XW, UnitedKingdom For Ariagni A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS The book is a component in a wider assemblage of writing feminist genealogies. It draws on archival research at the New York Public Library and the Bibliothèque Historique De la Ville de Paris. I want to express my gratitude to their librarians and archivists for generously sup- portingmyworkandforgivingmepermissiontoquotefromFanniaMary Cohn’s and Rose Pesotta’s papers as well as the Jeanne Bouvier’s Fonds. IamgratefultotheBritishAcademyforasmallgrantonwomenworkers’ education (SG112079), which gave me the opportunity to study Fannia Cohn’s papers. I would also like to thank the University of East London for additionally supporting my research in Paris and New York through twosmallgrantsin2011and2013,aswellaswithasabbaticalleaveinthe spring of 2014. My thanks also to the New York Public Library and the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University for facilitating the reproduction of the images that the visualanalysis of thisbookhas drawn on. IfurtherwanttothankmycolleaguesandPh.D.studentsattheCentre for Narrative Research, University of East London, UK; the Centre for Gender and Language at Linnaeus University Sweden; and the Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University Australia. They have been the intellectual community that has created conditions of possibility for myideas to unfold anddevelop overthe years. Asalways,myfinalandbiggestthanksgotoMihali,AriagniandAnna; thanks somuchforall yourlove,friendshipandsupport! vii C ONTENTS 1 Introduction:Politics,Geographies andHistoriesin Workers’ Education 1 2 Assemblagesof Institutional HistoriesandLifeNarratives 19 3 TheSelf as/in Dialogue 69 4 Ethics,AestheticsandPolitics in WomenWorkers’ Education 113 5 VisualTechnologies and‘otherarchives’ 155 6 Conclusion:TheAdventureofWomenWorkers’Education 191 Archival Sources 203 References 205 Index 217 ix L F IST OF IGURES Fig.3.1 Symposium:WomenintheLabourMovement,Photographer: Unknown,8July1925.KheelCenterforLabor-Management Documentation&Archives. 84 Fig.3.2 SecondInternationalConferenceonWorkers’Educationheld atOxfordfromAugust15thto17th1924.FanniaM.Cohn Papers,1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems. 1924.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,the NewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTildenFoundations. 90 Fig.5.1 UnityHouse,June1927AuxiliaryConference.FanniaM.Cohn Papers,1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems. June1927.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,the NewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTildenFoundations. 169 Fig.5.2 A.RaisinCashierFMCPinsky+Pres.M.Sigman.FanniaM. CohnPapers,1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversized items.1928.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision, theNewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTilden Foundations. 170 Fig.5.3 Seatedportraitatdeskingarden.FanniaM.CohnPapers, 1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems. 1928.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision, theNewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTilden Foundations. 172 Fig.5.4 Ingardenwithayounggirl.FanniaM.CohnPapers, 1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems. N.d.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision, theNewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTilden Foundations. 174 xi xii LISTOFFIGURES Fig.5.5 ILGWUConvention.AtlanticCity.FanniaM.CohnPapers, 1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems.1934. Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,theNewYork PublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTildenFoundations. 175
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