Clever girls and the literature of women's upward mobility
- 作者： Eagleton, Mary, author.
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- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- 主題： Women in literature. , English literature--Women authors--History and criticism. , English literature--20th century--History and criticism. , English literature--21st century--History and criticism. , Intellect in literature. , Social mobility in literature. , Literature. , Contemporary Literature. , Twentieth-Century Literature. , Social History. , Social Structure, Social Inequality. , Culture and Gender. , Gender Studies.
- ISBN： 9783319719610 (electronic bk.) 、 9783319719603 (paper)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: 1. Introduction: The Language of Upward Mobility -- 2. Escaping Origins -- 3.Relative Values: Career, Marriage, Maternity -- 4. Troublesome Bodies -- 5. New Forms, New Selves -- 6. 'Top Girls' and Other Epithets -- 7. 'The Haves' and 'the Have-Nots' -- 8. Coda: Phantom Feminism.
- 摘要註: 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.
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- 系統號： 005422517 | 機讀編目格式
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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.