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Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education

Classroom Mothers in Neoliberal Times and the Patriarchal Mother-Power in School

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Authors:
  1. Meral Apak

    1. Alice Salomon University, Berlin, Germany

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  • Discusses how women’s empowerment in the school system as mothers reinforces patriarchy
  • Demonstrates how mother-labour becomes institutionalized in the school system
  • Presents demonstrative and descriptive practical incidences in the field

Part of the book series: Critical Studies of Education (CSOE, volume 17)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-9

  3. Historical, Political and Social Background: ‘The Neoliberal Times’ and Education

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    Pages 11-23

  4. Unpaid Care Labour, Voluntary Work and Motherhood

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    Pages 25-62

  5. Forms of Capital and Parental Involvement

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    Pages 63-86

  6. Classroom Mothers: A Reserve Army of Labour Behind the School System

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    Pages 87-97

  7. School as a Territory of Power and Classroom Motherhood at School

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    Pages 99-131

  8. Classroom Motherhood as a Power Position

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    Pages 133-156

  9. Classroom Mothers and the Neoliberal Education: A Match or a Mismatch?

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    Pages 157-187

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 189-199
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About this book

This book unveils women’s empowerment as mothers as a notion in the school system that reinforces patriarchy rather than weakening it. It discusses how empowerment is a contested notion, even though it is mostly praised in terms of women’s emancipation. This book explores the concept that although women are breastfeeding education as mothers in the neoliberal education system, they are not necessarily doing so as a self-sacrifice as one may generalize in the context of neoliberal economy. Instead, this book argues that women are doing this as a means of investment for gaining a sense of individual power, which ironically, reinforces patriarchal values. It presents demonstrative and descriptive practical incidences in the field.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Alice Salomon University, Berlin, Germany

    Meral Apak

About the author

Dr Meral Apak is a critical education researcher chasing the odds in the “normal” within the realm of educational life and thought. Her work focuses on gender issues in education in the field of power, empowerment and “dis”powerment in a sociological sense. Apak has taught at various levels in public and private schools. During and after her Master’s degree in Women’s Studies, she actively participated in the establishment of women’s solidarity organisations and critical education associations. During her doctoral study in the field of Educational Sciences, she contributed to the establishment of BEPAM (Bogazici University, Center for Educational Policy Studies) and led the center from 2013 to 2017. Apak has taught at various universities in Istanbul and in Germany, and continues her research in Berlin.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education

  • Book Subtitle: Classroom Mothers in Neoliberal Times and the Patriarchal Mother-Power in School

  • Authors: Meral Apak

  • Series Title: Critical Studies of Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0260-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0259-8Published: 25 March 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0262-8Published: 26 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0260-4Published: 24 March 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2543-0467

  • Series E-ISSN: 2543-0475

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 199

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Gender Studies

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