Class matters : 'working-class' women's perspectives on social class /

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Imprint:London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis, 1997.
Description:vi, 210 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Women & social class
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2719996
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Other authors / contributors:Mahony, Pat.
Zmroczek, Christine.
ISBN:0748405402
0748405410 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Why Class Matters
  • Chapter 2. Class Matters, 'Race' Matters, Gender Matters
  • Chapter 3. The Double-Bind of the 'Working-Class' Feminist Academic: the Success of Failure or the Failure of Success?
  • Chapter 4. Women, Education and Class: the Relationship Between Class Background and Research
  • Chapter 5. Academic as Anarchist: Working-Class Lives into Middle-Class Culture
  • Chapter 6. Something Vaguely Heretical: Communicating Across Difference in the Country
  • Chapter 7. 'You'Re Not with Your Common Friends Now': Race and Class Evasion in 1960s London
  • Chapter 8. Contested Categorizations: Auto/Biography, Narrativity and Class
  • Chapter 9. Missing Links: Working-Class Women of Irish Descent
  • Chapter 10. Switching Cultures
  • Chapter 11. A Class of One's Own: Women, Social Class and the Academy
  • Chapter 12. Classifying Practices: Representations, Capitals and Recognitions
  • Chapter 13. Northern Accent and Southern Comfort: Subjectivity and Social Class
  • References
  • Chapter 14. Interpreting Class: Auto/Biographical Imaginations and Social Change
  • Chapter 15. To Celeb-Rate and Not to Be-Moan
  • Chapter 16. Finding a Voice: on Becoming a Working-Class Feminist Academic
  • Index