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Formations of Class and Gender : Becoming Respectable.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : SAGE Publications, Limited, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (199 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781848609211
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.42
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Contents:
Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Fm -- 1 Introduction: Processes, Frameworks and Motivations -- 2 Respectable Knowledge: Experience and Interpretation -- 3 Historical Legacies: Respectability and Responsibility -- 4 Developing and Monitoring a Caring Self -- 5 (Dis)Identifications of Class: On Not Being Working Class -- 6 Ambivalent Femininities -- 7 Becoming Respectably Heterosexual -- 8 Refusing Recognition: Feminisms -- 9 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: ′A sophisticated and passionately written account of the classed and gendered identities of a small group of working-class white women who live in the north-west of England. It is ethnography at its best, having been built on long-term, thoughtful engagements in the field′ - Gender and Education.
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Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Fm -- 1 Introduction: Processes, Frameworks and Motivations -- 2 Respectable Knowledge: Experience and Interpretation -- 3 Historical Legacies: Respectability and Responsibility -- 4 Developing and Monitoring a Caring Self -- 5 (Dis)Identifications of Class: On Not Being Working Class -- 6 Ambivalent Femininities -- 7 Becoming Respectably Heterosexual -- 8 Refusing Recognition: Feminisms -- 9 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

′A sophisticated and passionately written account of the classed and gendered identities of a small group of working-class white women who live in the north-west of England. It is ethnography at its best, having been built on long-term, thoughtful engagements in the field′ - Gender and Education.

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