Working-class women in elite academia. A philosophical inquiry.

Autor/in	Leeb, Claudia
Titel	Working-class women in elite academia. A philosophical inquiry. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Frauen aus der Arbeiterklasse und akademische Elite. Eine philosophische Untersuchung.
Quelle	Brüssel: P.I.E. Lang (2004), 220 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Philosophy & Politics. 8
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISSN	1376-0920
ISBN	90-5201-979-7
Schlagwörter	Feminismus; Frau; Geschlecht; Klassenlage; Arbeiterklasse; Sozialer Aufstieg; Akademiker; Hochschule; Aristoteles; Bourdieu, Pierre; Marx, Karl; Platon; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Weber, Max; Nordamerika
Abstract	"In this original book, the author uses a poststructuralist perspective to chart explicit and tacit assumptions about the working class in general and the working-class woman specifically in the classical texts of prominent political philosophers and social critics including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Rousseau, Marx, Weber and Bourdieu. The author argues that philosophical discourses that construct such categories as the Other function as disciplinary practices that aim at keeping working-class women either out of or at the margins of academic institutions. She analyzes interviews with women from a range of national origins in New York City's elite academic institutions, who identified their backgrounds as working class. Her analysis foregrounds the potential of these women to resist class and gender discipline. 'Working-Class Women in Elite Academia' makes a significant contribution to political-theory literature on injustice that challenges and reconfigures the meanings of woman and working class. It is of particular interest to political philosophers, critical theorists, and women's and gender studies scholars." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2006/3