Bibliograph

Women without class, girls, race, and identity, Julie Bettie

Type

Label

Women without class, girls, race, and identity, Julie Bettie

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women without class

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

48691356

Responsibility statement

Julie Bettie

Sub title

girls, race, and identity

Summary

In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, the author 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, adn sexuality. Documenting the categories of subculture and style that high school students use to explain class and racial/ethnic differences among themselves, she depicts the complex identity performances of contemporary girls

Table Of Contents

Portraying Waretown High -- Women without class -- How working-class chicas get working-class lives -- Hard-living habitus, settled-living resentment -- Border work between classes -- Sameness, difference, and alliance

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