Clever Girls And The Literature Of Women S Upward Mobility

Author : Mary Eagleton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319719610

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Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility by Mary Eagleton Pdf

This book follows the figure of ‘the clever girl’ from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of ‘opportunity’, ‘aspiration’ and ‘choice’ is often experienced as an anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study, the book explores the struggle to move away from home and traditional notions of femininity; the persistent problems associated with women’s embodiment; the pressures of class and racial divisions; the new subjectivities of the neoliberal era; and the generational conflict underpinning austerity. The book ends with a consideration of feminism’s place as a phantom presence in this history of clever girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women’s writing and to those interested in what has been one of the dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to declining mobility.

Author : Leanne Bibby
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031086717

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A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women by Leanne Bibby Pdf

This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt’s representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic, or capable of restructuring the myth of the intellectual as male by default. This mythopoeia is, furthermore, intrinsically feminist in function, thus potentially broadening the conventional, limited view of women in intellectual history. The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply concepts of mythopoeia and sexual difference in ways that allow new readings of women’s status and work in public spheres.

Author : Jackie Goode
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030296582

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Clever Girls by Jackie Goode Pdf

Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association's "Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award for a Book about the Working-Class Academic Experience" This collection by three generations of women from predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of the classed, gendered and racialized subject with powerful, engaging, funny and moving stories of transitions through family relationships, education, friendships and work. The developments that take place across a life in processes of ‘becoming’ are examined through the fifteen autoethnographies that form the core of the book, set within an elaboration of the social, educational and geo-political developments that constitute the backdrop to contributors’ lives. Clever Girls discusses the status of personal experience as ‘research data’ and the memory work that goes into the making of autoethnography-as-poiesis. The collection illustrates the huge potential of autoethnography as research method, mode of inquiry and creative practice to illuminate the specificities and commonalities of experiences of growing up as ‘clever girls’ and to sound a ‘call to action’ against inequality and discrimination.

Author : Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137477361

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 by Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins Pdf

This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.

Author : Aqsa Saeed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030822613

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Education, Aspiration and Upward Social Mobility by Aqsa Saeed Pdf

This book explores the career aspirations, achievements and consequent social mobility of a group of British Pakistani women. It uses Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to analyse how these women, living in a segregated Pakistani community located in a deprived northern town in the UK with poor employment opportunities, acquired the resources to pursue further and higher education, obtain qualifications and enter professional careers. The author discusses and analyses how cultural capital features in homes, schools and workplaces, as well as how the women navigate and modify intersecting gender, ethnic and class identities in order to create specific career trajectories. Illuminating the rich intersections of biography, history and society, the author captures important qualitative data which acts as a microcosm for contemporary discussions on social mobility, multiculturalism, Muslim communities, race, and gender in Britain.

Author : B. Korte,G. Zipp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137429292

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Poverty in Contemporary Literature by B. Korte,G. Zipp Pdf

Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555020892

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Dublin University Magazine a Literary and Political Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maureen Neihart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000495089

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Peak Performance for Smart Kids by Maureen Neihart Pdf

Peak Performance for Smart Kids provides success strategies, activities, tools, real-life examples, and checklists for parents to employ to help their kids to achieve their highest potential. Even the most talented child will not succeed if he or she has not developed the mental, psychological, and emotional skills to face the heavy demands of high performance. Maureen Neihart, a psychologist and leading authority on talent development in children, examines seven mental habits of successful kids, providing practical approaches for developing them in talented children of all ages in this easy-to-read guide for parents and teachers. By working with parents to complete the activities included in this book, high-ability kids will learn to manage stress and anxiety, set and achieve goals, use mental rehearsal to improve performance, manage their moods and emotions, practice optimistic thinking, and resolve their frustrations of needing to belong while needing to achieve. With its research-based strategies and unique approach to maximizing potential, this is a book from which every parent of smart kids can benefit! Educational Resource

Author : Sue Brisbane,Katherine Roberts,Paul Taylor
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781471839498

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OCR Sociology for A Level by Sue Brisbane,Katherine Roberts,Paul Taylor Pdf

Our experienced author team combines detailed focus with engaging activities to develop students knowledge and sociological skills throughout the course. - Build knowledge and understanding of key concepts in a contemporary context, including globalisation and the digital social world - Engaging activities develop essential sociological skills - Practice and extension exercises reinforce learning and prepare students for their exams

Author : Roberto Schwarz
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781844679652

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Two Girls by Roberto Schwarz Pdf

Roberto Schwarz is the foremost literary critic of his generation in Brazil and the most important Marxist practitioner in the tradition of the Frankfurt School writing anywhere today. This collection confirms the international significance of Schwarz’s critical achievement. Studies of Kafka and Brecht respectively open and close the volume, which includes incisive studies of contemporary poetry and fiction in Brazil. The centerpiece is the hitherto untranslated Two Girls, which brings together two strongly contrasting narratives of girls’ lives—one a classic novel, the other an adolescent’s diary—to substantiate the crucial concept of objective form. With key reflections on theory and method and an illuminating account of the general historical importance of his exemplary Brazilian novelist, Machado de Assis, Two Girls compellingly demonstrates the logic and significance of Schwarz’s work for an English-language readership.

Author : LuElla D'Amico,Emily Hamilton-Honey
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666946680

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Beyond Nancy Drew by LuElla D'Amico,Emily Hamilton-Honey Pdf

This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for example, fighting Germans on an international stage. This book expands scholarship that tends to focus on Nancy Drew by drawing attention to the stories of some other “lost” heroines of twentieth century U.S. series fiction. Organized by time period, the chapters give insight into the cultural landscape that perpetuated the popularity of these heroines in their respective eras, how these series reflected the experiences of readers across the decades, and their continued impact well into the twenty-first century.

Author : Joyce West Stevens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780195121643

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Smart and Sassy by Joyce West Stevens Pdf

Empirically based, the daily experience of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of social context and developmental theory. The author argues that adolescence must be seen from strengths and health perspectives. Self-relatedness or intersubjectivity expressed in assertion, empathy, and recognition is the core matrix of development where social contextual responses can be adaptive or maladaptive.

Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551112213

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The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge Pdf

Charlotte Mary Yonge was one of the most prolific writers of the nineteenth century. Though perhaps best known for her popular children’s books, she also wrote adult novels. Swiftly-plotted and cleanly-wrought, Yonge’s work has again gained critical attention, in part because she writes about the predicament of nineteenth-century women. The Clever Woman of the Family is a new woman novel that focuses on a group of women in a small seaside community. It is the early 1860s and British women outnumber men to such an extent that not all women can expect to marry. Rachel Curtis, the clever woman of the title, is an opinionated young woman whose yearning for a “mission” in life leads to tragicomic results. The Broadview edition contextualizes the novel’s ambivalent feminism and pro-empire sentiments with materials on some of the most pertinent debates of the time.

Author : Jane Cunningham Croly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005635977

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The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America by Jane Cunningham Croly Pdf

Author : C. Parkes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137265098

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Children's Literature and Capitalism by C. Parkes Pdf

After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.