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Silver, Rachel E.

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Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage in Malawi.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage in Malawi./
作者:	Silver, Rachel E.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	339 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-09, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-09B.
標題:	Sexuality. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13809291
ISBN:	9781392003961

Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage in Malawi.
Silver, Rachel E.

Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage in Malawi. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 339 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-09, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage examines the relationship between discourses on girls' sexuality and young people's lives in Malawi. In Malawi, as in much of the world, the pregnant schoolgirl embodies failure for diverse actors and institutions. She signals moral degeneration and a loss of control over girls' sexuality to parents and teachers, chiefs and clerics. At the same time, she demonstrates the failure of schooling to solve social problems. Drawing on a year of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation reveals: (1) how schoolgirl pregnancy has come to be so widely constituted as a social and development problem and (2) how discourses on pregnant students shape international and national policy, organizational efforts to support girls' education, daily practice in schools, and the lives of student mothers. It takes an anthropology of policy approach and uses Malawi's 1993 Readmission Policy, which banned the permanent expulsion of pregnant girls from school, as a central node from which to explore these issues. In the twenty-five years since its inception, Readmission Policy-though symbolically significant-has failed to return girls to school in large numbers. As a result, in 2016, the Malawian government reviewed the policy to make it more robust and effective. While engaging with Readmission Policy, stakeholders from government officials and international funders to NGO workers, teachers, and parents evaluated pregnant schoolgirls, the state of Malawi, and international development in moral terms. In a process I call moral triage, these evaluations then informed the distribution of scarce resources, whether bursaries to student mothers or the flow of aid money to Malawi. At the same time, Malawian government officials and student mothers sought paths to moral redemption. Throughout the dissertation, I use three heuristic tools: moral triage, middle figures, and boundary subjects to show what happens when the symbolic power of education and the optimistic dreams of Malawian student mothers meet with the racialized inequities that characterize international development structures and severely under-resourced communities and schools. While critical development scholars have long considered international development to be a deeply moral project, I demonstrate the material significance of moral judgements across levels of scale.

ISBN: 9781392003961Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sexuality.
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