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Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory
Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay
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The voices of 20 women from working-class backgrounds are heard in this collection of essays. Each of the women has lived through the process of academic socialisation - as both student and teacher - and each has thought long and deeply about her experiences from an explicitly feminist perspective
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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Class Discussion: A Dialogue between Kate Ellis and Lillian S. Robinson
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Belonging
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“What's a Nice Working-Class Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?”
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Who Am I Now? The Politics of Class Identity
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Writing and Teaching with Class
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A Question of Belonging
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Pockets of Experience
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Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education
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A Mennonite “Hard Worker” Moves from the Working Class and the Religious/ Ethnic Community to the Academy: A Conflict between Two Definitions of “Work”
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Grandma Went to Smith, All Right, but She Went from Nine to Five: A Memoir
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A Farmer’s Daughter in Academia
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Yer Own Motha Wouldna Reckanized Ya: Surviving an Apprenticeship in the“Knowledge Factory”
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Going to Class
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Pass the Cake: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Text in the Academic Workplace
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“Someone to Watch Over Me”: Politics and Paradoxes in Academic Mentoring
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Working-Class Women As Students and Teachers
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Teaching the Working Woman
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Ways In and Ways Out
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Recasting the “Politics of Truth”: Thoughts on Class, Gender, and the Role of Intellectuals
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Vestments and Vested Interests: Academia, the Working Class, and Affirmative Action
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Language: Closings and Openings
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Dissent in the Field; or, A New Type of Intellectual?
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Telling Tales in School: A Redneck Daughter in the Academy
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Epilogue
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By the Rivers of Babylon
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Bibliography
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Contributors’ Notes
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Index
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Published: 1993
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- 9781685750619 (ebook)