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

by Pat Mahony (Editor), Christine Zmroczek (Editor)

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748405411
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/19/1997
Series:	Women and Social Class Series
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Pat Mahony, Christine Zmroczek

Table of Contents

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.