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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility
  name:
    name part: Eagleton, Mary.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 208 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: The Language of Upward Mobility -- 2. Escaping Origins -- 3.Relative Values: Career, Marriage, Maternity -- 4. Troublesome Bodies -- 5. New Forms, New Selves -- 6. 'Top Girls' and Other Epithets -- 7. 'The Haves' and 'the Have-Nots' -- 8. Coda: Phantom Feminism.
  note: by Mary Eagleton.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-21st century
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: Social structure
  subject:
    topic: Social inequality
  subject:
    topic: Culture
  subject:
    topic: Gender
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary Literature
  subject:
    topic: Twentieth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Social Structure, Social Inequality
  subject:
    topic: Culture and Gender
  subject:
    topic: Gender Studies
  classification: PN695-779
  classification: 809
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319719610
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71961-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 180215
    record change date: 20191026222412.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-71961-0