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Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable (Theory, Culture & Society) - Softcover

Buch 104 von 127: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Skeggs, Beverley

 
9780761955122: Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable (Theory, Culture & Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761955127 ISBN 13: 9780761955122
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Beverley Skeggs is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. She has published The Media; Issues in Sociology; Feminist Cultural Theory; Formations of Class and Gender; Class, Self, Culture Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety (with Les Moran) and Feminism after Bourdieu (with Lisa Adkins), and with Helen Wood, Reacting to Reality TV: Audience, Performance, Value and Reality TV and Class, along with many journal articles on class and culture. As an ESRC Professorial Fellow she developed a "sociology of values and value'' that included projects on the digital economy and prosperity theology, and whilst Director of the Atlantic Fellows Programme, established the 'Global Economies of Care' theme at the LSE.

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'A sophisticated and passionately written account of the classed and gendered identities of a small group of working-class white women who live in the north-west of England. It is ethnography at its best, having been built on long-term, thoughtful engagements in the field' - Gender and Education

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761955127
ISBN 13 
9780761955122
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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