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Formations of class and gender : becoming respectable

Explaining that class and gender must be fused together to give an accurate picture of power relations in modern society, Skeggs uses ethnographic research to show how women challenge, modify and reformulate their understanding of both class and gender
Print Book, English, 1997
SAGE, London, 1997
192 pages ; 24 cm.
9780761955115, 9780761955122, 0761955119, 0761955127
37530044
1. Introduction: Processes, Frameworks and Motivations
2. Respectable Knowledge: Experience and Interpretation
3. Historical Legacies: Respectability and Responsibility
4. Developing and Monitoring a Caring Self
5. (Dis)Identifications of Class: On Not Being Working Class
6. Ambivalent Femininities
7. Becoming Respectably Heterosexual
8. Refusing Recognition: Feminisms
9. Conclusions
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