Women's Education and Fertility in Spain. The Impact of Education Level and Education Choice on First, Second and Third Births

Colonial educational policies and educational levels are also a part of the history of contemporary expatriate populations that consist of a growing number of the educated-unemployed. This class migrates to new "homes" for employment and economic reasons. Color, class, and gender divisions often denied educational opportunities to women in the Caribbean region, evoking resonances of British colonial practices in other occupied territories of the so-called Empire. The colonial enterprise of educating the natives was both ideological and gendered. Female colonization carried the burden of patriarchal domination that most often not only predated colonialism but was reinforced by it. English education often contradicts "traditional" cultural expectations of female behavior; women, however "modernized" with an English education, must remain "traditional." For an educated woman to overstep the boundaries as codified within patriarchal control of female sexuality can be disastrous, as explored in Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Conditions (1988) ...»