Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming RespectableSAGE Publications, 21 lug 1997 - 200 pagine Explanations 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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Processes Frameworks and Motivations | 1 |
Experience and Interpretation | 17 |
Respectability and Responsibility | 41 |
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