Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity - Softcover

Bettie, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520235428 ISBN 13: 9780520235427

Verlag: University of California Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Bettie Julie

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Críticas:

"Pathbreaking and original. Bettie's comparative analysis of race, class, and gender performance of the different female peer issues is unparalleled in current scholarship."-Angela Valenzuela, author of Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring

Reseña del editor:

In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Documenting the categories of subculture and style that high school students use to explain class and racial/ethnic differences among themselves, Bettie depicts the complex identity performances of contemporary girls. The title, "Women Without Class", refers at once to young working-class women who have little cultural capital to enable class mobility, to the fact that class analysis and social theory has remained insufficiently transformed by feminist and ethnic studies, and to the fact that some feminist analysis has itself been complicit in the failure to theorize women as class subjects. Bettie's research and analysis make a case for analytical and political attention to class, but not at the expense of attention to other axes of identity and social formations.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0520235428
• ISBN 13: 9780520235427
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 259