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Petty, Sue. "Working-class women and contemporary British literature." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5441.

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This thesis involves a class-based literary criticism of working-class women s writing. I particularly focus on a selection of novels by three working-class women writers - Livi Michael, Caeia March and Joan Riley. Their work emerged in the 1980s, the era of Thatcherism, which is a definitive period in British history that spawned a renaissance of working-class literature. In my readings of the novels I look at three specific aspects of identity: gender, sexuality and race with the intersection of social class, to examine how issues of economic positioning impinge further on the experience of

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Rankin, Cherie L. Breu Christopher. "Working it through women's working-class literature, the working woman's body, and working-class pedagogy /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1417799101&SrchMode=1&sid=7&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1205258868&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed on March 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Christopher D. Breu (chair), Cynthia A. Huff, Amy E. Robillard. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 262-273) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Bowen, Scarlett K. "The labor of femininity : working women in eighteenth-century British prose /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9837908.

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Milne, Anne. "'Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow' : domesticated animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0029/NQ66225.pdf.

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Horan, Marion. "Trafficking in danger working-class women and narratives of sexual danger in English and United States anti-prostitution campaigns, 1875-1914 /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Jones, Miriam. ""Too common and most unnatural" rewriting the "infanticidal woman" in Britain, 1764-1859 /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/NQ43433.pdf.

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Dalporto, Jeannie C. ""To build, and plant, and keep a table" class, gender, and the ideology of improvement in eighteenth-century women's literature /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2155.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2001.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 341 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-341).

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Balestra, Alisa. "Shift in Work, Shift in Representation: Working-Class Identity and Experience in U.S. Multi-Ethnic and Queer Women's Fiction." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303080667.

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Greve, Curt Michael. "Raw." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1311189062.

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James, Laura. "Working women : gender, class and place." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440718.

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Young, Mai-san. "Women in transition : from working daughters to unemployed mothers /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B22956384.

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Wheeler, Belinda. "At the center of American modernism Lola Ridge's politics, poetics, and publishing /." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1683.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.<br>Title from screen (viewed on June 2, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Karen Kovacik, Jane E. Schultz, Thomas F. Marvin. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-61).

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Fernandez, Jody Ann. "The literacy practices of working class white women." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000235.

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Lai, Pui-yim Ada. "Working daughters in the 1990's /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20716515.

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Saldana, Esther. "Concha Espina, du journalisme au roman engagé (1880-1955)." Thesis, Pau, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PAUU1066.

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Du fait de sa trajectoire particulière et d’engagements parfois controversés, la production littéraire de Concha Espina (1869-1955) a été trop souvent oubliée. Ce travail de recherche a pour ambition de se pencher sur l’œuvre de Concha Espina, qui a défendu avec passion ses convictions socio-politiques dans la première moitié du XXème siècle. Son écriture, née dans la presse à la toute fin du XIXème, a été influencée par les nombreux courants littéraires qui ont traversé son temps. Concha Espina s’approprie et fait siennes ces influences.Cette thèse propose de porter un regard nouveau sur les

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Wilson, Karen. "Aspects of solidarity between middle-class and working-class women 1880-1903." Thesis, Keele University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293991.

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Smeraldo, Kaitlyn N. "(Re)Constructing Gender: White, Working-Class Women and Trauma." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1553336041577677.

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DeGenaro, William. "The nature of working-class literature: an ecofeminist critique." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu997116409.

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Straw, P. "Times of their lives : A century of working class women." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371886.

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Plummer, Gillian. "What has education done for working-class women and girls?" Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020292/.

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What has education done for working-class women and girls?' This study looks at 'how working-class life is theorised , and 'how it is experienced'. I start by analysing historical, sociological and psychological interpretations of class and gender subordination in the context of working-class women's relation to education and success, focusing specifically on inferiority as a learned position. In adopting a multidisciplinary approach I confront dominant discourses and structures of academic knowledge evoking different sides of the conflictual relationship between 'able' working-class girls and

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Young, Mai-san, and 楊美珊. "Women in transition: from working daughters to unemployed mothers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31225524.

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Sepulveda, Celia Anna. "Consuming merit: Social mobility and class contradictions of working class and lower class women in graduate school." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280742.

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This study utilizes a multi-method approach to analyzing the experience of working class and lower class women's experience in graduate school. A quantitative analysis is used to determine the number of working class and lower class females in graduate school using parents' education as a proxy. Most first-generation females in graduate school were found in Research I universities in the field of Education. A qualitative analysis includes semi-structured interviews of 34 women from two Research I institutions in the Southwest in the fields of Education, Psychology, Health Sciences and Biology.

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Lai, Kwai-fong Wendy. "A study of the roles of Chinese working women in China and Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19672159.

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Mellor, Jody. "Parallel lives? : working-class Muslim and non-Muslim women at university." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11030/.

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Ellis, Jacqueline. "Silent witnesses : representations of working-class women in America, 1933-1945." Thesis, University of Hull, 1995. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:12911.

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Dar, Aqsa. "The educational careers of high-aspiring working-class British Pakistani women." Thesis, Open University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.664475.

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This research is concerned with the barriers and opportunities experienced by working class British Pakistani women who aspired to higher education and to obtaining professional jobs. It examines the career trajectories of nine second generation British Pakistani women who were born in a working class area of a former textile town in the north of England. These women pursued educational qualifications as the means to acquire new knowledge and experiences and in order to secure higher status jobs. This is in marked contrast to the traditional trajectory which they saw other British Pakistani wo

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Attwood, Megan Elizabeth. "Exploring place : further education, working class women and a foundation degree." Thesis, Open University, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701079.

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In May 2010 a newly elected coalition government inherited a concern about widening access to higher education in the United Kingdom. As far as widening participation within higher education is concerned, research indications are that while overall participation has increased, the rate of participation from under-represented groups has remained at a consistently low level (UCAS 2012a, ESRC 2012). My study is motivated by these disparities in participation rates and by a desire to critique the assumptions made within policy. I view widening participation policy as problematic in its negative po

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McCullough, Aaron Wayne. "Consuming Sympathies: Working-Class Cultural Capital in Several Nineteenth-Century English Texts." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1134142393.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2005.<br>Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], ii, 79 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).

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Brodersen, Lyn A. "From working-class origins to academia community college women who have crossed the great class divide /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.

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Barnes-Powell, Tina M. "Young women and alcohol : issues of pleasure and power." Thesis, University of York, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10794/.

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Michael, Olivia. "Towards a theory of working class literature : Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots quair in the context of earlier working class writing." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1992. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/318/.

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The main aim of this thesis is to develop a theoretical approach to working class literature, up to and including the 1930's, in order to place Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Ouair within the context of working class writing. In developing this approach I have drawn on the critical models of Marxist, feminist, post-colonial and post-structuralist literary theories. These have enabled me to explore issues of economic marginalisation, imperialism and the construction of gender and identity, as raised both by Gibbon's distinctive narrative and linguistic style and by earlier texts. The main argum

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Giles, Margaret Judith. "Something that bit better : working-class women, domesticity and 'respectability' 1919-1939." Thesis, University of York, 1989. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4234/.

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Clark-King, Ellen Jane. "Sacred hearts : feminist theology interrogated by the voices of working-class women." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418877.

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This thesis brings together the spiritual and theological insights of feminist writers with those of working-class church-going women from the council estates in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne, opening up new possibilities for a theology based on feminist methodology. The central argument of the thesis is that feminist theology, in order to avoid becoming just another theology of the elite, needs to attend to the theology and spirituality of women outside the academy, and outside the feminist fold. The findings include areas of overlap, relationality for example, and points of conflict, e

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Falke, Cassandra Marie. "A Mote in the Eye of Literature : Working Class Autobiography1820-1848." Thesis, University of York, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507619.

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Moore, S. "Women, industrialisation and protest in Bradford, West Yorkshire, 1780-1845." Thesis, University of Essex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377084.

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Porter, Susie Shannon. "In the shadows of industrialization : the entrance of women into the Mexican industrial work force, 1880-1940 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9732697.

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Mood, Jonathan William. "Employment, politics and working-class women in north east England, c. 1790-1914." Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2687/.

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This thesis explores the issue of the economic and political agency of working-class women in North East England for the period c.1790-1914. In contrast to the national average, the North East was populated by more men than women in this period, whilst the dominance of industrial trades such as coal, shipbuilding, iron and steel, and engineering resulted in the lowest female employment rates in the country, as well as the highest marriage rates and the youngest average age at marriage. These trends are investigated in detail and would suggest that if anywhere women were to be powerless it was

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Dennehy, Anne. "Keeping mum : the condition of working class women in late 20th century England." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265304.

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Forsyth, Margaret. "Lighting a frugal taper : working-class women poets 1830-1890; a critical anthology." Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393674.

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McCann, Brandy R. "Intimacy and Family Among Single, Working-Class Women: A Focus on Rural Appalachia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11201.

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With people living longer and coming into old age with more diverse relational experiences than previous cohorts (e.g., divorce, cohabitation), researchers anticipate that the so-called baby boomers will be more interested in pursuing romantic relationships in later life than their predecessors. On the other hand, we know that the experience of aging varies among people on the basis of their social locations (e.g., racial, gender, class). As central Appalachia is a place characterized by persistent poverty, I interviewed single, midlife White women from a community in West Virginia (N=11) to i

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Vincent, Louise. "Bread and honour: white working class women and Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s." Journal of Southern African Studies, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008575.

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Women have occupied a central place in the ideological formulations of nationalist movements. In particular, the figure of woman as mother recurs throughout the history of nationalist political mobilizations. In Afrikaner nationalism, this symbolic female identity takes the form of the volksmoeder (mother of the nation) icon, commonly assumed to describe a highly circumscribed set of women's social roles, created for women by men. The academic orthodoxy holds that middle-class Afrikaner women submitted to the volksmoeder ideology early on in the development of Afrikaner nationalism but that th

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Raymond, Melanie. "Labour pains : working class women in employment, unions and the Labor party in Victoria, 1888-1914 /." Connect to thesis, 1987. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000326.

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Rivers, Bronwyn Anne. "Mid-nineteenth-century women novelists and the question of women's work." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365499.

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Caldwell, Frances Elizabeth. "‘Educating ‘Shelias’: What are the social class issues for mature working-class women studying at contemporary New Zealand universities?’." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Human Development, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2361.

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“…And you think you’re so clever and classless and free… …But we’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see. A working-class hero is something to be…” (Song sung by Marianne Faithfull, 1990). The quote above illustrates the conflict highlighted by this study between workingclass struggle (and possible middle-class exploitation) and working-class hopes and aspirations for a middle-class future. It also reflects the uncomfortable sense of being “between two worlds” and “belonging nowhere” that is described by the mature, working-class women university students in my study. This feeling of bei

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Jacobi-Dittrich, Juliane. "The struggle for an identity : working-class autobigraphies by women in nineteenth-century germany." Universität Potsdam, 1986. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/3236/.

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Jayakrishna, Louise. "The Exclusion of Working-Class Women in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-7462.

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In Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own the narrator clearly expresses her rage and resentment exposing the absence and exclusion of women through history and she also focuses on the unfair position of women in her contemporary society. The narrator encourages women to emancipate themselves and to be aware of the idiosyncratic nature of society that restricts them to the private sphere. The aim of this paper is to offer a different interpretation of A Room of One’s Own and demonstrate how Woolf excludes contemporary working-class women from partaking in her feminist message. In order to demons

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Gibbs, Patricia Anne. "A social history of white working class women in industrializing Port Elizabeth, 1917-1936." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002395.

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The study period saw a significant increase in the urbanisation of whites and blacks in Port Elizabeth induced by droughts and coercive legislation, but also by burgeoning industrialisation. Industry had been given great stimulus by World War 1 and maintained by protectionist legislation in the 1920s which the local state and industrialists came to endorse. The ethos of the town was overwhelmingly British in terms of the population, the composition of the local council, business interests and the prevailing culture. Whites formed the largest component of the population in Port Elizabeth during

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Walsh, Stella Maria. "Food choices and consumption patterns among older working-class women : a grounded theory approach." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496510.

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Bovill, Helen Lesley. "How and why do working-class women engage with the structures of (higher)education?" Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2008. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/18278/.

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Sayer, Karen Anne. "'Girls into demons' : nineteenth century representations of English working class women employed in agriculture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316811.

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