Skeggs, Bev. 1997. Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable. Sage. ISBN 978-0761955122 [Book]

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Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power. Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an accurate representation of power relations in modern society.

The book questions how theoretical frameworks are generated for understanding how women live and produce themselves through social and cultural relations. It uses detailed ethnographic research to explain how `real' women inhabit and occupy the social and cultural positions of class, femininity and sexuality. As a critical examination of cultural representation - informed by recent feminist theory and the work of Pierre Bourdieu - the book is an articulate demonstration of how to translate theory into practice.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Date:	1997
Item ID:	13632
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2015 16:43
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2017 12:47
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13632

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