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



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Autore: Bettie Julie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women without class : girls, race and identity / / Julie Bettie Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95724-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458707603321
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