Mothering for Schooling

Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which inequalities of educational opportunities are reproduced.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Women and the Making of the New Middle Class	p. 13
The Mothering Discourse	p. 31
Time, Scheduling, and Coordinating the Uncoordinated	p. 47
Complementary Educational Work	p. 65
Complementary Educational Work: Employed Mothers and Fathers	p. 89
Uptown and Downtown in Maltby: School and Board Perspectives	p. 107
Inequality and Educational Change	p. 123
Endnotes	p. 137
Bibliography	p. 141
Index	p. 149
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