Class Matters: "Working Class" Women's Perspectives On Social Class

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ISBN: 9780748405411 | 0748405410
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Copyright: 4/1/1997

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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?

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Why Class Matters	p. 1
Class Matters, 'Race' Matters, Gender Matters	p. 8
The Double-Bind of the 'Working-Class' Feminist Academic: the Success of Failure or the Failure of Success?	p. 18
Women, Education and Class: the Relationship Between Class Background and Research	p. 30
Academic as Anarchist: Working-Class Lives into Middle-Class Culture	p. 44
Something Vaguely Heretical: Communicating Across Difference in the Country	p. 53
'You'Re Not with Your Common Friends Now': Race and Class Evasion in 1960s London	p. 65
Contested Categorizations: Auto/Biography, Narrativity and Class	p. 78
Missing Links: Working-Class Women of Irish Descent	p. 87
Switching Cultures	p. 101
A Class of One's Own: Women, Social Class and the Academy	p. 109
Classifying Practices: Representations, Capitals and Recognitions	p. 123
Northern Accent and Southern Comfort: Subjectivity and Social Class	p. 140
References	p. 150
Interpreting Class: Auto/Biographical Imaginations and Social Change	p. 152
To Celeb-Rate and Not to Be-Moan	p. 175
Finding a Voice: on Becoming a Working-Class Feminist Academic	p. 190
Index	p. 205
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Class Matters: "Working Class" Women's Perspectives On Social Class

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