Clever Girls Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Goode, Jackie (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Creative writing.; Sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Creative Writing.; Gender Studies.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

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 devel...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The classed, gendered and racialized subject
• 3. On Autoethnography
• 4. On Be(com)ing Clever; Liz Thomas
• 5. 'Too Clever by Half'; Jackie Goode
• 6. Common Ground; Nell Farrell
• 7. From "Too Womanish, Girl!" to Clever Womanish Woman; Christa Welsh
• 8. "I stand with them" ... united and secure; Melanie Reynolds
• 9. Things You Wouldn't Say To Your Daughter; Panya Banjoko
• 10. Being the One Good Thing; Sarah Ward
• 11. Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Jan Bradford
• 12. 'Must Try Harder': Anxiety, Self-Shaping and Structures of Feeling, Then and Now; Tracey Loughran
• 13.Single Indian woman; very accomplished but can't make round chapatis; Meena Rajput
• 14. "But you're not really foreign": an authoethnography of a working-class Canadian 'passing' in England; Kristin O'Donnell
• 15. 'Untitled'; Motsabi Rooper
• 16. "Is this yours ... Did you write this?"; Victoria Adukwei Bulley
• 17. Letter to My Younger Self; Claire Mitchell
• 18. Fractured Lives and Border Crossings; Emily Green
• 19. Clever Girls in Conversation
• 20. Conclusions. .