List of Illustrations
Introduction
Mary Ann Maslak
PART I
Structure and Agency of Educational Policy for Adolescent Girls and Adult Women
1. The Intersection of Public Policies and Gender: Understanding State Action in Education
Nelly P. Stromquist
2. Assessing the Status and Prospects of Women’s Empowerment through Education: A Case Study of Women Students at the University of The Gambia
Caroline Manion
3. Structure and Agency in India’s Teacher Education Policy: Women Teachers’ Progress through a Critical Feminist Lens
Sandra L. Stacki
4. Feast or Famine for Female Education in Kenya? A Structural Approach to Gender Equity
Lucy Mule
PART II
Structure and Agency of International Forces for Female Education
5. Promoting Girls’ Education in Africa: Evidence from the Field between 1996 and 2003
David W. Chapman and Shirley J. Miske
6. The Dance of Agency and Structure in an Empowerment Educational Program in Mali and the Sudan
Karen Monkman, Rebecca Miles, and Peter B. Easton
7. Res Publica Revisited: Gendered Agency through Education in NGOs
Cathryn Magno
8. Their One Best Hope: Educating Daughters in China
Vilma Seeberg
PART III
Social Relations as Structural Parameters
Defining Females’ Agency in Education
9. Female Classroom Assistants: Agents of Change in Refugee Classrooms in West Africa?
Jackie Kirk and Rebecca Winthrop
10. A World Culture of Equality? The Institutional Structure of
Schools and Cross-National Gender Differences in Academic Achievement
Alexander W. Wiseman
11. Looking Beyond the Household: The Importance of
Community-Level Factors in Understanding
Underrepresentation of Girls in Indian Education
Amita Chudgar
PART IV
Women and the Research Setting:
The Intersection of Structure and Agency in Methodologies
12. Life’s Structures and the Individual’s Agency: Making Sense of Women’s Words
Flavia Ramos
13. Policy as Practice, Agency as Voice, Research as Intervention:
Imag(in)g Girls’ Education in China
Heidi Ross
Appendix
Abbreviated Overview of Selected Policy Recommendations on
Education and Training of Adolescent Girls and Adult Women
Contributors
Index