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Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory
Tokarcyzk
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Description for Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Fay, Elizabeth A. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSC; JN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 549.
My mother still wants me to get a 'real' job. My father, who is retired after 44 years in the merchant marine, has never read my work. When I visited recently, the only book in his house was the telephone book. ""I do not know that my mother's mother ever acknowledged my college education except to ask me once, 'How can you live so far away from your people?'"" Thus write two of the 20 women from working-class backgrounds whose voices are heard in this collection of essays. Each of the women has lived through the process of academic socialisation ... Read more
My mother still wants me to get a 'real' job. My father, who is retired after 44 years in the merchant marine, has never read my work. When I visited recently, the only book in his house was the telephone book. ""I do not know that my mother's mother ever acknowledged my college education except to ask me once, 'How can you live so far away from your people?'"" Thus write two of the 20 women from working-class backgrounds whose voices are heard in this collection of essays. Each of the women has lived through the process of academic socialisation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9780870238352
SKU
V9780870238352
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Ref
99-15
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