Clever Girls Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity
This collection by three generations of women from predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of the classed, gendered and racialized subject with powerful, engaging, funny and moving stories of transitions through family relationship
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Clever Girls “Clever Girls is a powerful, intergenerational meditation on character formation and how it is shaped by class, race and gender. Its first-hand accounts are fascinating, sometimes shocking in the ways in which women have had to struggle, and always thought-provoking.” —Bernadine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize “In this book Dr Jackie Goode has provided a platform from which the reader witnesses the powerful voices of a group of women, identified at a young age as ‘Clever Girls’, telling stories of their intersecting experiences of class, gender, and race set against temporal and cultural contexts from the post-war period to the present. The book is a collective autoethnography which captures the complexities, ambiguities, paradoxes, joys, and celebrations that will engage and inform women of all ages and stages.” —Kim Etherington, University of Bristol, UK “By turns brilliant, moving, uplifting, harrowing, shocking—these stories of intrepid cleverness amongst girlhoods positioned by the Othernesses of class, gender and ethnicity, are hugely important for understanding the complex landscapes of today. A must-read that will inspire you to begin your own autoethnography.” —Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University, UK “An urgent and extraordinary book! The vibrancy of the autoethnographic accounts together with the methodological rigour and theoretical sophistication hold together that which is so often rendered apart in academic writings: ‘experience-near’ accounts of situated lives along with analytic nuance.” —Gail Lewis, Birkbeck, University of London, UK “These contributors’ accounts show the very best of what autoethnography can do: incisive, moving, and brave, they show the reader the complex ways in which relations of inequality are experienced and how history is lived on the ground.” —Steph Lawler, The University of York, UK
Jackie Goode Editor
Clever Girls Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity
Editor Jackie Goode Loughborough University Loughborough, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-29657-5 ISBN 978-3-030-29658-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29658-2 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the
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