Women without class : girls, race and identity / / Julie Bettie

• Autore: Bettie Julie
• Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.235097945
• Soggetto topico: Children, White - California - San Francisco Bay Area - Social conditions - 20th century; Teenage girls, White - Race identity - California; Teenage girls, White - California - Social conditions; Mexican American teenage girls - Race identity - California; Mexican American teenage girls - California - Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the 2014 Edition -- Chapter 1. Portraying Waretown High -- Chapter 2. Women without Class -- Chapter 3. How Working-Class Chicas Get Working-Class Lives -- Chapter 4. Hard-Living Habitus, Settled-Living Resentment -- Chapter 5. Border Work between Classes -- Chapter 6. Sameness, Difference, and Alliance -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head, asking what cultural gestures are involved in the performance of class, and how class subjectivity is constructed in relationship to color, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. A new introduction contextualizes the book for the contemporary moment and situates it within current directions in cultural theory. Investigating the cultural politics of how inequalities are both reproduced and challenged, Bettie examines the discursive formations that provide a context for the complex identity performances of contemporary girls. The book's title refers at once to young working-class women who have little cultural capital to enable class mobility; to the fact that analyses of class too often remain insufficiently transformed by feminist, ethnic, and queer studies; and to the failure of some feminist theory itself to theorize women as class subjects. Women without Class makes a case for analytical and political attention to class, but not at the expense of attention to other social formations.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women without class
• ISBN: 0-520-95724-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458707603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II