TY - JOUR
T1 - Limits of and possibilities for equality
T2 - An analysis of discourse and practices of gendered relations, ethnic traditions, and poverty among non-majority ethnic girls in Vietnam
AU - DeJaeghere, Joan
AU - Miske, Shirley J.
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - This chapter examines discourses and social practices at individual, community, and institutional levels related to non-majority Vietnamese ethnic girls' access to and participation in secondary school. This critical analysis utilizes Sen's framework of capabilities to illustrate differences in discourse and social practice that exist around poverty, and the ways in which gendered relations and ethnic traditions are intertwined with the discourse and practices of poverty to affect girls' choices and well-being in and through secondary education. We particularly draw on girls' and their parents' constructions of these issues as they negotiate and are affected by them. We argue that strategies must move beyond the discourse that ethnic traditions and gendered relations are barriers to girls' education to consider the inequalities and lack of capabilities that perpetuate poverty and unequal gendered relations for non-majority ethnic groups in societies.
AB - This chapter examines discourses and social practices at individual, community, and institutional levels related to non-majority Vietnamese ethnic girls' access to and participation in secondary school. This critical analysis utilizes Sen's framework of capabilities to illustrate differences in discourse and social practice that exist around poverty, and the ways in which gendered relations and ethnic traditions are intertwined with the discourse and practices of poverty to affect girls' choices and well-being in and through secondary education. We particularly draw on girls' and their parents' constructions of these issues as they negotiate and are affected by them. We argue that strategies must move beyond the discourse that ethnic traditions and gendered relations are barriers to girls' education to consider the inequalities and lack of capabilities that perpetuate poverty and unequal gendered relations for non-majority ethnic groups in societies.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79956176039
SN - 1479-3679
VL - 10
SP - 145
EP - 183
JO - International Perspectives on Education and Society
JF - International Perspectives on Education and Society
ER -