Class Matters

"Working Class" Women's Perspectives On Social Class

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

This text focuses on the theory of class as it relates to women. It debates questions such as: how do women define themselves in terms of social class and why?; is definition important or not?; what part does education play in our understanding of class?; and how does class affect relationships?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-03-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780748405404

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Innehållsförteckning

Why class matters, Pat Mahoney and Christine Zmroczek; class matters, race matters, gender matters, Tracey Reynolds; the double bind of the working class feminist academic - the success of failure of failure of success, Diane Reay; women, education and class - the relationship between class background and research, Janet Parr; academic as anarchist - working class lives into middle class culture, Kim Clancy; something vaguely heretical - communicating across difference in the country, Karen Sayer and Gail Fisher; you're not with your common friends now - race and class evasion in 1960s London, Shani D'Cruz; contested categorizations - auto/biography, narrativity and class, Boguisa Temple; missing links - working class women of Irish descent, Meg Maguire; switching cultures, Monika Reinfelder; a class of one's own - women, social class and the academy, Louise Morley; classifying practices - representations, capitals and recognitions, Beverley Skeggs; northern acent and southern comfort - subjectivity and social class, Valerie Hey; interpreting class - auto/biographical imaginations and social change, Val Walsh; to celeb- rate and not to be-moan, Jo Stanley; finding a voice - on becoming a working-class feminist academic, Gerry Holloway.