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Empowerment Of Excluded Girls In Schooling Exploring Capabilities And Social Justice Change In China, Vilma Seeberg
Empowerment Of Excluded Girls In Schooling Exploring Capabilities And Social Justice Change In China, Vilma Seeberg
Vilma Seeberg
Despite extremely poor odds at the margins of China’s break-neck industrialization and left behind in remote China, village girls have nevertheless been struggling valiantly just to stay in middle and possibly high school. This chapter is informed by more than 10 years of observational studies of 73 daughters of one such village
Arguing that an elaborated framework that focuses the Human Development Capability Approach on empowerment capabilities can explain the choice for schooling under these conditions and can locate drivers of social change, the chapter presents 28 adolescent village girls’ perceptions of their changed gender identities, roles, and life trajectories, …