Women and Social Class

This volume presents debates on class within an international context. Its particular focus is on women's theorized experience of social class from a variety of feminist perspectives contextualized in relation to the countries and regions in which they live. Using personal experience as a basis contributors cover Australia Bangladesh Botswana Britain Canada Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic India Israel Korea New Zealand Poland and the USA - iluminating the differences and similarities between regions.; Challenging the view that class is dead as well as the idea that it is a British phenomenon the book argues that class needs to be regarded as a key concept in any attempt to understand women's lives. It also reflects on personal and political experiences of class around the world in order to understand the mechanisms through which class discrimination operates and is mediated by gender sexuality ethnicity and racism.