Gender Structure and Women's Agency: Toward Greater Theoretical Understanding of Education for Transformation

Autor/in	Stromquist, Nelly P.
Titel	Gender Structure and Women's Agency: Toward Greater Theoretical Understanding of Education for Transformation
Quelle	In: International Journal of Lifelong Education, 34 (2015) 1, S.59-75 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-1370
DOI	10.1080/02601370.2014.991524
Schlagwörter	Females; Nongovernmental Organizations; Institutional Role; Sex Fairness; Social Justice; Gender Issues; Advocacy; Social Change; Sex Role; Adult Education; Feminism; Nonformal Education; Informal Education; Achievement; Failure; Womens Education; Foreign Countries; Dominican Republic; Peru + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Sexualaufklärung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Geschlechterfrage; Sozialanwaltschaft; Sozialer Wandel; Geschlechterrolle; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Feminismus; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Nichtformale Bildung; Informelle Bildung; Performance; Leistung; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Ausland; Dominikanische Republik
Abstract	Under the research radar, and yet highly influential in transformation of practices concerning the social understanding and enactment of gender, are women-led non-governmental organizations (WNGOs). Their continued efforts to reconfigure gender identities and their impact on public policy formation have expanded notions of citizenship and democracy as well as moved social justice to greater levels of concreteness. This article seeks to contribute to the literature by probing the role of WNGOs as educational institutions that both create and disseminate knowledge about gender inequalities and gender justice and, in so doing, foster the formation of assertive individual and collective identities that subsequently influence the public arena through their advocacy of measures to reduce inequalities between women and men. The work by these WNGOs confirms the theoretical premise that to effect social change, new knowledge must be created by the very groups that seek to alter the disadvantageous conditions that confront them. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01