(UNDER) EDUCATING WOMEN

What does globalization mean for education and training policy?

What does it mean for women, particularly women of the working classes?

In this wide ranging book, Jacky Brine shows that global changes are gendered, racialized and classed.

Rejecting a deterministic reading, the book explores the many conflicting and collaborative interests and the possibilities for opportunity and change, as well as resistance: from the regionalized and national state, to training providers, femocrats and feminist educators, and unemployed working class women.

Education and training policy is a key feature of regionalized blocs.

The book explores its gendered relationship to social policy and the social exclusion that results from the unequal material and social effects of economic growth - particularly the pathologization of unemployed women.

Despite the growth of post-compulsory education and training, the relative and actual position of under-educated working class women changes little.

Key to the discussion is the discourse of equality which, contrary to expectations, is seen to marginalize rather than increase women's opportunities.