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Cookie akzeptierenMary Eagleton
Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility
- Springer International Publishing
- 2019
- Taschenbuch
- 216 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319891255
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;
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