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Category Archives: Gender
HOME IS WHERE THE SCHOOL IS: The Emotional Lives of Homeschooling Mothers, part 1
Record This is the first of two posts dedicated to Jennifer Lois’ new book Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering(New York University Press, 2013). This post summarizes the book. Part … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged counterfactual reasoning, emotional epiphany, intensive mothering, Jennifer Lois, sandwich generation, snowball sampling, Teaching Parents Association, time-sensitive identity, TPA, Western Washington University
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MATHEMATICS AND HOMESCHOOLING: A Missed Opportunity
Record: Kathleen Ambruso Acker, Mary W. Gray, Behzad Jalali, and Matthew Pascal, “Mathematics and Home Schooling” in Notices of the AMS 59, no, 4 (April 2012): 513-521. Summary: All four authors of this paper are affiliated with American University. The … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Gender, Policy/Regulation
Tagged American University, Behzad Jalali, Jim Dwyer, Judith McMullen, Kathleen Ambruso Acker, Kimberly Yuracko, Mary W. Gray, mathematics, Matthew Pascal, Notices of the AMS, South Carolina Law Review
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THE TEMPORAL EMOTION WORK OF MOTHERHOOD: How Homeschooling Mothers Deal with the Time Crunch
Record: Jennifer Lois, “The Temporal Emotion Work of Motherhood: Homeschoolers’ Strategies for Managing Time Shortage” in Gender and Society, 24, no. 4 (August 2010): 421-446. Summary: Lois, a professor of sociology at Western Washington University, here continues her work focusing … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Gender and Society, Jennifer Lois, problematic emotions, savoring, sequencing, Sharon Hays, temporal emotion work
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PRIVATE OPPRESSION: Fundamentalist Mormons and Homeschooling
Record: Teri Dobbins Baxter, “Private Oppression: How Laws that Protect Privacy Can Lead to Oppression” in Kansas Law Review 58, no. 2 (January 2010): 415-471 [Available for purchase here] Summary: Baxter, Professor of Law at St. Louis University, here seeks … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Legal, Policy/Regulation, Religion
Tagged FLDS, HSLDA, Kansas Law Review, Oregon v. Smith, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA, St. Louis University, Strict Scrutiny, Teri Dobbins Baxter, Yearning For Zion
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