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200 10$aClever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility /$fby Mary Eagleton
205   $a1st ed. 2018.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018.
215   $a1 online resource (213 pages)
311   $a3-319-71960-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
327   $a1. 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.
330   $aThis 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. .
606   $aLiterature, Modern?20th century
606   $aLiterature, Modern?21st century
606   $aSocial history
606   $aSocial structure
606   $aEquality
606   $aCulture
606   $aGender
606   $aSociology
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606   $aTwentieth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000
606   $aSocial History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000
606   $aSocial Structure, Social Inequality$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010
606   $aCulture and Gender$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411210
606   $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000
615  0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century.
615  0$aLiterature, Modern?21st century.
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615  0$aGender.
615  0$aSociology.
615 14$aContemporary Literature.
615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature.
615 24$aSocial History.
615 24$aSocial Structure, Social Inequality.
615 24$aCulture and Gender.
615 24$aGender Studies.
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