Clever Girls And The Literature Of Women S Upward Mobility
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Clever Girls and the Literature of Women s Upward Mobility
Author | : Mary Eagleton |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319719610 |
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This book follows the figure of ‘the clever girl’ from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of ‘opportunity’, ‘aspiration’ and ‘choice’ is often experienced as an anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study, the book explores the struggle to move away from home and traditional notions of femininity; the persistent problems associated with women’s embodiment; the pressures of class and racial divisions; the new subjectivities of the neoliberal era; and the generational conflict underpinning austerity. The book ends with a consideration of feminism’s place as a phantom presence in this history of clever girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women’s writing and to those interested in what has been one of the dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to declining mobility.
A S Byatt and Intellectual Women
Author | : Leanne Bibby |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2022-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783031086717 |
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This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt’s representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic, or capable of restructuring the myth of the intellectual as male by default. This mythopoeia is, furthermore, intrinsically feminist in function, thus potentially broadening the conventional, limited view of women in intellectual history. The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply concepts of mythopoeia and sexual difference in ways that allow new readings of women’s status and work in public spheres.
Clever Girls
Author | : Jackie Goode |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783030296582 |
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Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association's "Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award for a Book about the Working-Class Academic Experience" This collection by three generations of women from predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of the classed, gendered and racialized subject with powerful, engaging, funny and moving stories of transitions through family relationships, education, friendships and work. The developments that take place across a life in processes of ‘becoming’ are examined through the fifteen autoethnographies that form the core of the book, set within an elaboration of the social, educational and geo-political developments that constitute the backdrop to contributors’ lives. Clever Girls discusses the status of personal experience as ‘research data’ and the memory work that goes into the making of autoethnography-as-poiesis. The collection illustrates the huge potential of autoethnography as research method, mode of inquiry and creative practice to illuminate the specificities and commonalities of experiences of growing up as ‘clever girls’ and to sound a ‘call to action’ against inequality and discrimination.
The History of British Women s Writing 1945 1975
Author | : Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137477361 |
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This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.
Education Aspiration and Upward Social Mobility
Author | : Aqsa Saeed |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9783030822613 |
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This book explores the career aspirations, achievements and consequent social mobility of a group of British Pakistani women. It uses Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to analyse how these women, living in a segregated Pakistani community located in a deprived northern town in the UK with poor employment opportunities, acquired the resources to pursue further and higher education, obtain qualifications and enter professional careers. The author discusses and analyses how cultural capital features in homes, schools and workplaces, as well as how the women navigate and modify intersecting gender, ethnic and class identities in order to create specific career trajectories. Illuminating the rich intersections of biography, history and society, the author captures important qualitative data which acts as a microcosm for contemporary discussions on social mobility, multiculturalism, Muslim communities, race, and gender in Britain.
Girlhood and the Politics of Place
Author | : Claudia Mitchell,Carrie Rentschler |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780857456472 |
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Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.
Poverty in Contemporary Literature
Author | : B. Korte,G. Zipp |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2014-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137429292 |
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Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.
Dublin University Magazine a Literary and Political Journal
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555020892 |
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