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Classed intersections : spaces, selves, knowledges /

"Classed Intersections examines the salience, transformation and tension of class analysis at a crucial juncture when class investigation is returning to, and reinventing sociological agendas. The contributors, including both established and emerging academics, examine class as produced through...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Taylor, Yvette, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Classed intersections: spaces, selves, knowledges / Yvette Taylor
  • Part I Class, the Self and the Space In-Between:
  • Working capital: ownership and (some) means of production / Sue Parker
  • Is there such a thing as a working-class academic? / Paul Wakeling
  • Becoming 'somebody': examining class and gender through higher education / Sarah Evans
  • The significance of bonding capital: class, ethnicity, faith and British Muslim women's routes to university / Jody Mellor
  • Part II Mapping Class: Location, Distinction and Belonging:
  • Asdatown: the intersections of classed places and identities / Ben Gidley and Alison Rooke
  • Betwixt and between: managing marginalised, classed identities / Emma Clavering
  • Making working-class neighbourhoods posh? Exploring the effects of gentrification strategies on working-class communities / Kirsteen Paton
  • Privileged locations? Sexuality, class and geography / Yvette Taylor
  • Part III Transformations and Intersections:
  • Even poor gays travel: excluding low income gay men from understandings of gay tourism / Mark Casey
  • 'I wanted to be totally true to myself': class and the making of the sexual self / Elizabeth McDermott
  • Class and sexual intimacy: an everyday life perspective / Dana Wilson-Kovacs
  • Class and gender at the intersection: working-class women's dispositions towards employment and motherhood / Jo Armstrong.