UID:
almafu_9958093322202883
Format:
1 online resource (252 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-35771-4
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0-203-29189-1
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0-203-21433-1
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1-280-32464-3
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1-135-35772-2
Series Statement:
Women & social class
Content:
This volume presents debates on class within an international context. Its particular focus is on women's theorized experience of social class from a variety of feminist perspectives, contextualized in relation to the countries and regions in which they live. Using personal experience as a basis, contributors cover Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, India, Israel, Korea, New Zealand, Poland, and the USA - iluminating the differences and similarities between regions.; Challenging the view that ""class is dead"" as well as the idea that it is
Note:
Includes index.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; What does it mean to be a middle-class woman in Botswana?; The ~new Hebrew's~ new woman: growing up Israeli and middle-class; Who am I? A journey across class and identity; Class, attainment and sexuality in late twentieth-century Britain; Women in and after a ~classless~ society; Class, gender and ethnicity: snapshots of a mixed heritage; Class matters: Yes it does; Coming out; Class and transnational identities: a Korean-American woman in England
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Personal reflections from the margins: an interface with race, class, nation and genderOwning up to being middle class: race, gender and class in the context of migration; Officially known as ~other~: multiethnic identities and class status; You nurtured me to be a carefree bird, O Mother; Genealogies of class; Questioning correspondence: an Australian woman's account of the effects of social mobility on subjective class consciousness; Spilling the caviar: telling privileged class tales; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-85728-930-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-85728-929-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203214336
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