Women without Class by Julie Bettie
In this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head, asking what cultural gestures are involved in the performance of class, and how class subjectivity is constructed in relationship to color, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. A new introduction contextualizes the book for the contemporary moment and situates it within current directions in cultural theory. Investigating the cultural politics of how inequalities are both reproduced and challenged, Bettie examines the discursive formations that provide a context for the complex identity performances of contemporary girls. The book's title refers at once to young working-class women who have little cultural capital to enable class mobility; to the fact that analyses of class too often remain insufficiently transformed by feminist, ethnic, and queer studies; and to the failure of some feminist theory itself to theorize women as class subjects. Women without Class makes a case for analytical and political attention to class, but not at the expense of attention to other social formations.
"Julie Bettie's book is interesting because it looks at the intersection between class, race and gender in the sphere of education in terms of gestures and performance of 'class'.. The interdisciplinary orientation of Bettie's book coupled with its combination of theoretical and empirical balance makes it a worthy read." -- Patgiri Rituparna Allegra Laboratory
Julie Bettie teaches cultural politics and cultural theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is an Associate Professor of Sociology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520280014 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520280016 |
| Title | Women without Class |
| Author | Julie Bettie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2014-09-18 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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