Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory - Softcover

Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Fay, Elizabeth A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870238353 ISBN 13: 9780870238352

Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

"My mother still wants me to get a 'real' job. My father, who is retired after forty-four years in the merchant marine, has never read my work. When I visited recently, the only book in his house was the telephone book."
"I do not know that my mother's mother ever acknowledged my college education except to ask me once, 'How can you live so far away from your people?'
Thus write two of the twenty women from working-class backgrounds whose voices are heard in this unique collection of essays. Each of the women has lived through the process of academic socialization - as both student and teacher - and each has thought long and deeply about her experience from an explicitly feminist perspective.
Among the questions the contributors explore, What are the issues - pedagogical, theoretical, and personal - that affect the professional and private lives of these women? How do they resolve tensions between their roles as middle-class professionals and their roots in working-class families? How do class and gender intersect in the academy?

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MICHELLE M. TOKARCZYK is assistant professor of English at Goucher College. ELIZABETH A. FAY is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0870238353
• ISBN 13: 9780870238352
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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