Artikel
Surviving in dangerous places : working-class women, women's studies and higher education
Verfasst von:
Reay, Diane
in:
Women's studies international forum
New York [u.a.]:
1998
,
11 - 19 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Reay, Diane |
| In: | Women's studies international forum |
| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| In this article, I juxtapose the experiences of the working-class, young woman I was 30 years ago and the "middle-class" academic researcher that I have become with an attempt to theorise the difficult relationship of women's studies to the academy in the U.K. I exemplify the ways in which the issue of women's social class is particularly problematic for women's studies by drawing on my own personal history of being working-class in the British higher education system. I maintain that, just as my sense of integrity and autonomy as a working-class woman was continually under assault in higher education, the position of women's studies in the academy is also about "surviving in dangerous places", which continually jeopardises women's studies' aim of validating women's experiences across social classes. Drawing on my recent experience I argue that issues of co-option, insecurity, and lack of authenticity are also hallmarks of women's studies in the late 1990s. | |
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