Table Of ContentPalgrave Studies in Gender
and Education
Series Editor
Yvette Taylor
School of Education
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow
United Kingdom
This Series aims to provide a comprehensive space for an increasingly
diverse and complex area of interdisciplinary social science research: gen-
der and education. Because the field of women and gender studies is
developing rapidly and becoming ‘internationalised’ – as are traditional
social science disciplines such as sociology, educational studies, social
geography, and so on – there is a greater need for this dynamic, global
Series that plots emerging definitions and debates and monitors critical
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well-established, inter-disciplinaryfield ofgender andeducation.
TheSeriescombinesrenewedandrevitalisedfeministresearchmethods
andtheorieswithemergentandsalientpublicpolicyissues.Theseinclude
pre-compulsory and post-compulsory education; ‘early years’ and ‘life-
long’ education; educational (dis)engagements of pupils, students and
staff;trajectoriesandintersectionalinequalitiesincludingrace,class,sexu-
ality,ageanddisability;policyandpracticeacrosseducationallandscapes;
diversity and difference, including institutional (schools, colleges, univer-
sities), locational and embodied (in ‘teacher’–‘learner’ positions); varied
global activism in and beyond the classroom and the ‘public university’;
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maleducationalsettings;andemergenteducationalmainstreamsandmar-
gins. In using a critical approach to gender and education, the Series
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territorial-legislative domains in order to develop a more international,
intersectional focus. In addressing varied conceptual and methodological
questions,theSeriescombinesanintersectionalfocusoncompeting–and
sometimescolliding–strandsofeducationalprovisioningandequalityand
‘diversity’, and provides insightful reflections on the continuing critical
shift of genderandfeminismwithin (andbeyond)the academy.
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MariaTamboukou
’
Women Workers
Education, Life
Narratives and
Politics
Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies
MariaTamboukou
SchoolofLaw&SocialSciences
UniversityofEastLondon
DocklandsCampus
London,UnitedKingdom
PalgraveStudiesinGenderandEducation
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The book is a component in a wider assemblage of writing feminist
genealogies. It draws on archival research at the New York Public
Library and the Bibliothèque Historique De la Ville de Paris. I want to
express my gratitude to their librarians and archivists for generously sup-
portingmyworkandforgivingmepermissiontoquotefromFanniaMary
Cohn’s and Rose Pesotta’s papers as well as the Jeanne Bouvier’s Fonds.
IamgratefultotheBritishAcademyforasmallgrantonwomenworkers’
education (SG112079), which gave me the opportunity to study Fannia
Cohn’s papers. I would also like to thank the University of East London
for additionally supporting my research in Paris and New York through
twosmallgrantsin2011and2013,aswellaswithasabbaticalleaveinthe
spring of 2014. My thanks also to the New York Public Library and the
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at
Cornell University for facilitating the reproduction of the images that
the visualanalysis of thisbookhas drawn on.
IfurtherwanttothankmycolleaguesandPh.D.studentsattheCentre
for Narrative Research, University of East London, UK; the Centre for
Gender and Language at Linnaeus University Sweden; and the Institute
for Educational Research at Griffith University Australia. They have been
the intellectual community that has created conditions of possibility for
myideas to unfold anddevelop overthe years.
Asalways,myfinalandbiggestthanksgotoMihali,AriagniandAnna;
thanks somuchforall yourlove,friendshipandsupport!
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction:Politics,Geographies andHistoriesin
Workers’ Education 1
2 Assemblagesof Institutional HistoriesandLifeNarratives 19
3 TheSelf as/in Dialogue 69
4 Ethics,AestheticsandPolitics in WomenWorkers’
Education 113
5 VisualTechnologies and‘otherarchives’ 155
6 Conclusion:TheAdventureofWomenWorkers’Education 191
Archival Sources 203
References 205
Index 217
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Fig.3.1 Symposium:WomenintheLabourMovement,Photographer:
Unknown,8July1925.KheelCenterforLabor-Management
Documentation&Archives. 84
Fig.3.2 SecondInternationalConferenceonWorkers’Educationheld
atOxfordfromAugust15thto17th1924.FanniaM.Cohn
Papers,1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems.
1924.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,the
NewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTildenFoundations. 90
Fig.5.1 UnityHouse,June1927AuxiliaryConference.FanniaM.Cohn
Papers,1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems.
June1927.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,the
NewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTildenFoundations. 169
Fig.5.2 A.RaisinCashierFMCPinsky+Pres.M.Sigman.FanniaM.
CohnPapers,1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversized
items.1928.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,
theNewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTilden
Foundations. 170
Fig.5.3 Seatedportraitatdeskingarden.FanniaM.CohnPapers,
1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems.
1928.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,
theNewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTilden
Foundations. 172
Fig.5.4 Ingardenwithayounggirl.FanniaM.CohnPapers,
1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems.
N.d.Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,
theNewYorkPublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTilden
Foundations. 174
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Fig.5.5 ILGWUConvention.AtlanticCity.FanniaM.CohnPapers,
1914–1962./VIII.Photographsandoversizeditems.1934.
Photograph.ManuscriptsandArchivesDivision,theNewYork
PublicLibrary,Astor,LenoxandTildenFoundations. 175
