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Women and Social Class: International Feminist Perspectives

by Pat Mahony, Christine Zmroczek. 242 pgs.

Contributors:

   Pat Mahony, Christine Zmroczek

Publisher:

   UCL Press

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  1999

Subjects:

Feminist Theory, Social Classes, Women--Social Conditions

	Notes on contributors	vii
	Introduction	1
	Christine Zmroczek and
	Pat Mahony
	Chapter 1 What does it mean to be a middle-class woman in Botswana?	9
	Changu Mannathoko
	Chapter 2 The “new Hebrew’s” new woman: growing up Israeli and middle-class	25
	Ronit Lentin
	Chapter 3 Who am I? A journey across class and identity	37
	Gaby Weiner
	Chapter 4 Class, attainment and sexuality in late twentieth-century Britain	51
	Valerie Walkerdine ,
	Helen Lucey and
	June Melody
	Chapter 5 Women in and after a “classless” society	69
	Hana Havelková
	Chapter 6 Class, gender and ethnicity: snapshots of a mixed heritage	85
	Christine Zmroczek
	Chapter 7 Class matters: Yes it does	105
	Janice G. Raymond
	Chapter 8 Coming out	115
	Frances A. Maher
	Chapter 9 Class and transnational identities: a Korean-American woman in England	133
	Miri Song
	Chapter 10 Personal reflections from the margins: an interface with race, class, nation and gender	145
	Anita Franklin
	Chapter 11 Owning up to being middle class: race, gender and class in the context of migration	157
	Maher Anjum
	Chapter 12 Officially known as “other”: multiethnic identities and class status	167
	Leela MadhavaRau
	Chapter 13 You nurtured me to be a carefree bird, O Mother	185
	Bandana Pattanaik
	Chapter 14 Genealogies of class	199
	Susan Hawthorne
	Chapter 15 Questioning correspondence: an Australian woman’s account of the effects of social mobility on subjective class consciousness	211
	Elizabeth J. Hatton
	Chapter 16 Spilling the caviar: telling privileged class tales	225
	Laurel Guymer
	Index	235

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