What We Hold in Common: Exploring Women's Lives & Working Class Studies - Softcover

Zandy, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558612599 ISBN 13: 9781558612594

Publisher: THE FEMINIST PRESS, 2001

Synopsis

"Let us imagine what it would be like," writes Janet Zandy at the outset of this ground-breaking volume, "if the history and culture of working-class people were at the center of educational practices. What would students learn?" Among other things, she suggests, "they would understand that culture is created by individuals within social contexts and that they themselves could produce it as well as consume it."

Working-class history and literature have too often been ignored in traditional curricula, remain invisible in most texts, and are unavailable to students and teachers. Essential reading for all interested in the rapidly growing field of working-class studies, What We Hold in Common offers a distinct combination of primary voices, critical essays, and resources for curriculum transformation. It deepens the understanding of working-class literature, history, culture, and artistic production, while attending to the material conditions of working-class peoples' lives.

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Synopsis

Working-class history and literature have too often been ignored in traditional curricula, have remained invisible in most textbooks, and have been unavailable to students and teachers. Essential reading for all interested in the rapidly growing field of working-class studies, this book offers a combination of primary voices, critical essays, and resources for curriculum transformation. It deepens the understanding of working-class writings, history, culture, and artistic production, while providing literature that captures the material conditions of working-class peoples' lives. Janet Zandy brings together -- in poetry, fiction, memoir, and song -- the voices of working-class people, with a strong emphasis on the often overlooked voices of working-class women. Critical essays place working-class studies in perspective for teacher and student, as scholars in the field write about recovering autobiographies and oral histories, practising working-class studies, and current and emerging texts and theories.

Edition details

• Publisher: THE FEMINIST PRESS
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558612599
• ISBN 13: 9781558612594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336