Women's Studies and Working-class Women

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We began talking with each other about social class more than ten years ago. We are both from working-class backgrounds on any common sense or sociological definition of this term and we have both benefited from a number of years in higher education. Between us we have several degrees and both of us now have full-time salaried positions as teachers and researchers in higher education. We each have a car, a mortgage and many of the other trappings of a middle-class lifestyle, yet we retain the sense of being long-term guests in someone else's house where, however well one knows the rules, it is still not home. It is as though we have learned another language and are conscious of its grammatical structures in a way that native speakers are not. What are we then? What do the terms 'working-class' and 'middle-class' mean for women in our position? These are just two of the questions with which we started when we first began to think about the role of social class in our lives.

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