Women and Teaching

1. Introduction: Women and Teaching—Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession
Regina Cortina, Sonsoles San Román

Part I. The Daily Encounter of Teachers with a Feminized Profession

2. Professional Identities of Teachers during the Social Transformation toward Democracy in Spain
Sonsoles San Román

3. Collegiality and Gender in Elementary School Teachers’ Workplace Cultures: A Tale of Two Projects
Elisabeth Richards, Sandra Acker

4. State, Gender, and Class in the Social Construction of Argentine Women Teachers
Graciela Morgade

Part II. Multidisciplinary Interpretation of the Feminization of Teaching

5. Women Teachers in Mexico: Asymmetries of Power in Public Education
Regina Cortina

6. Educational Policies and Gender: An Assessment of the 1990s in Brazil
Fúlvia Rosemberg

7. The Feminization of the Teaching Profession in Belgium in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Marc Depaepe, Hilde Lauwers, Frank Simon

Part III. The Feminization of a Profession at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

8. Women and Teaching in Costa Rica in the Early Twentieth Century
Iván Molina

9. Society and Curriculum in the Feminization of the Teaching Profession in the Dominican Republic, 1860–1935
Juan Alfonseca Giner Ríos

10. Teachers of Yesteryear: A Study of Women Educators during Porfiriato
Luz Elena Galván Lafarga

Nyckelord: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Gender Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics