Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The research
  • Downtown school
  • Uptown school
  • The historical trajectory of inequality
  • Outline of the book
  • Women and the making of the new middle class
  • The historical trajectory of mothering and schooling
  • A new middle class
  • Women, schooling and the intergenerational continuities of the
  • New middle class
  • The cycle reproducing the new middle class
  • Concluding comments
  • The mothering discourse
  • Discovering discourse
  • Inventing the mothering discourse
  • The moral logic of the mothering discourse
  • The mothering discourse in our interviews
  • Time, scheduling, and coordinating the uncoordinated
  • Constructing the school day
  • The school day: getting there on time
  • The school day: lunch time
  • The school day: coming home
  • The school day at school
  • Conclusion
  • Complementary educational work
  • Complementary educational work: a contribution to the school
  • The full-time housewives
  • Educational work as a priority
  • Diversified routines
  • Flexible routines
  • Not strongly school oriented
  • Complementary educational work: employed mothers and fathers
  • Educational work as a priority
  • Not strongly school oriented
  • Summary
  • Fathers' involvement in complementary educational work
  • Conclusion
  • Uptown and downtown in maltby school and board perspectives
  • Teachers
  • The administrators
  • Conclusion.