| Description |
vi, 210 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Women & social class |
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Women & social class.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Why Class Matters / Pat Mahony and Christine Zmroczek -- Ch. 2. Class Matters, 'Race' Matters, Gender Matters / Tracey Reynolds -- Ch. 3. The Double-Bind of the 'Working-Class' Feminist Academic: The Success of Failure or the Failure of Success? / Diane Reay -- Ch. 4. Women, Education and Class: The Relationship between Class Background and Research / Janet Parr -- Ch. 5. Academic as Anarchist: Working-Class Lives into Middle-Class Culture / Kim Clancy -- Ch. 6. Something Vaguely Heretical: Communicating across Difference in the Country / Karen Sayer and Gail Fisher -- Ch. 7. 'You're not with your common friends now': Race and Class Evasion in 1960s London / Shani D'Cruze -- Ch. 8. Contested Categorizations: Auto/Biography, Narrativity and Class / Bogusia Temple -- Ch. 9. Missing Links: Working-Class Women of Irish Descent / Meg Maguire -- Ch. 10. Switching Cultures / Monika Reinfelder -- Ch. 11. A Class of One's Own: Women, Social Class and the Academy / Louise Morley |
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Ch. 12. Classifying Practices: Representations, Capitals and Recognitions / Beverley Skeggs -- Ch. 13. Northern Accent and Southern Comfort: Subjectivity and Social Class / Valerie Hey -- Ch. 14. Interpreting Class: Auto/Biographical Imaginations and Social Change / Val Walsh -- Ch. 15. To Celeb-rate and Not to Be-moan / Jo Stanley -- Ch. 16. Finding a Voice: On Becoming a Working-Class Feminist Academic / Gerry Holloway |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminist theory -- Great Britain.
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Women -- Education -- Great Britain.
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Women -- Employment -- Great Britain.
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Social classes -- Great Britain.
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Working class women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056940
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| Author |
Mahony, Pat.
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Zmroczek, Christine.
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| LC no. |
97197776 |
| ISBN |
0748405402 |
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0748405410 |
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