Women Without Class Girls, Race and Identity

Name: Women Without Class Girls, Race and Identity
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ISBN: 9780520235427

ISBN-10: 0520235428

ISBN-13: 9780520235427

Edition: 2003

Authors: Julie Bettie

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In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie 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, and sexuality. Documenting the categories of subculture and style that high school students use to explain class and racial/ethnic differences among themselves, Bettie depicts the complex identity performances of contemporary girls. The title,Women Without Class,refers at once to young working-class women who have little cultural capital to enable class mobility, to the fact that…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/21/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 259
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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



Conclusion


Notes


References


Index