04053nam 22006975 450 991030000550332120240207123931.03-319-71961-010.1007/978-3-319-71961-0(CKB)3840000000347913(MiAaPQ)EBC5301816(DE-He213)978-3-319-71961-0(EXLCZ)99384000000034791320180215d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierClever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility[electronic resource] /by Mary Eagleton1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (213 pages)3-319-71960-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.1. Introduction: The Language of Upward Mobility -- 2. Escaping Origins -- 3.Relative Values: Career, Marriage, Maternity -- 4. Troublesome Bodies -- 5. New Forms, New Selves -- 6. ‘Top Girls’ and Other Epithets -- 7. ‘The Haves’ and ‘the Have-Nots’ -- 8. Coda: Phantom Feminism.This book follows the figure of ‘the clever girl’ from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of ‘opportunity’, ‘aspiration’ and ‘choice’ is often experienced as an anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study, the book explores the struggle to move away from home and traditional notions of femininity; the persistent problems associated with women’s embodiment; the pressures of class and racial divisions; the new subjectivities of the neoliberal era; and the generational conflict underpinning austerity. The book ends with a consideration of feminism’s place as a phantom presence in this history of clever girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women’s writing and to those interested in what has been one of the dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to declining mobility. .Literature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature, Modern—21st centurySocial historySocial structureEqualityCultureGenderSociologyContemporary Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/815000Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000Social Structure, Social Inequalityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010Culture and Genderhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411210Gender Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature, Modern—21st century.Social history.Social structure.Equality.Culture.Gender.Sociology.Contemporary Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.Social History.Social Structure, Social Inequality.Culture and Gender.Gender Studies.820.99287Eagleton Maryauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut221489BOOK9910300005503321Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility2185697UNINA