Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming RespectableExplanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power. Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an accurate representation of power relations in modern society. The book questions how theoretical frameworks are generated for understanding how women live and produce themselves through social and cultural relations. It uses detailed ethnographic research to explain how `real' women inhabit and occupy the social and cultural posit |
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Contents
Processes Frameworks and Motivations | 1 |
Experience and Interpretation | 17 |
Respectability and Responsibility | 41 |
Developing and Monitoring a Caring Self | 56 |
On Not Being Working Class | 74 |
Ambivalent Femininities | 98 |
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| Title | Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable Volume 51 of Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society Theory, culture & society |
| Author | Beverley Skeggs |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | SAGE, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0761955127, 9780761955122 |
| Length | 192 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory Social Science / Gender Studies Social Science / Sociology / General Social Science / Women's Studies |
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