Women and social class : international feminist perspectives / / edited by Christine Zmroczek and Pat Mahony

• Pubblicazione: London, U.K. ; ; USA : , : UCL Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5082
• Soggetto topico: Women - Social conditions; Social classes; Feminist theory
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ZmroczekChristine MahonyPat
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; What does it mean to be a middle-class woman in Botswana?; The ~new Hebrew's~ new woman: growing up Israeli and middle-class; Who am I? A journey across class and identity; Class, attainment and sexuality in late twentieth-century Britain; Women in and after a ~classless~ society; Class, gender and ethnicity: snapshots of a mixed heritage; Class matters: Yes it does; Coming out; Class and transnational identities: a Korean-American woman in England ; Personal reflections from the margins: an interface with race, class, nation and genderOwning up to being middle class: race, gender and class in the context of migration; Officially known as ~other~: multiethnic identities and class status; You nurtured me to be a carefree bird, O Mother; Genealogies of class; Questioning correspondence: an Australian woman's account of the effects of social mobility on subjective class consciousness; Spilling the caviar: telling privileged class tales; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume presents debates on class within an international context. Its particular focus is on women's theorized experience of social class from a variety of feminist perspectives, contextualized in relation to the countries and regions in which they live. Using personal experience as a basis, contributors cover Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, India, Israel, Korea, New Zealand, Poland, and the USA - iluminating the differences and similarities between regions.; Challenging the view that ""class is dead"" as well as the idea that it is
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and social class
• ISBN: 1-135-35771-4; 0-203-29189-1; 0-203-21433-1; 1-280-32464-3; 1-135-35772-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910170980503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Women & social class.