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Chapter 8 - Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class, and the Child as Waste

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2021

By
Cindi Katz
Edited by
Jude Browne
Jude Browne
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University of Cambridge
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Summary

In the everyday places of home, school, and neighborhood, concerns about the future are being played out in extraordinary ways – venal and beautiful. If it is here that mounting anxieties around finding a place in an increasingly global labor force are managed and negotiated, and where ontological insecurity is felt in the bones, it is also where the chance to make a livable common future resides.

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Why Gender? , pp. 170 - 193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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