FORMATIONS OF CLASS & GENDER by Beverly Skeggs ( 9780761955122 )

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Title:

FORMATIONS OF CLASS & GENDER
BECOMING RESPECTABLE

By:

Beverly Skeggs

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0761955127

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9780761955122

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC

Pub. date:

3 June, 1997

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Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Pages:

200

Description:

'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

Synopsis:

Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power. Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an accurate representation of power relations in modern society. The book questions how theoretical frameworks are generated for understanding how women live and produce themselves through social and cultural relations. It uses detailed ethnographic research to explain how 'real' women inhabit and occupy the social and cultural positions of class, femininity and sexuality.As a critical examination of cultural representation - informed by recent feminist theory and the work of Pierre Bourdieu - the book is an articulate demonstration of how to translate theory into practice.

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