Reconfigurations of Gender and Class Relations: Class Differences, Class Condescension and the Changing Place of Class Relations
2006; Wiley; Volume: 38; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00478.x
ISSN1467-8330
Autores Tópico(s)Social Policy and Reform Studies
ResumoAntipodeVolume 38, Issue 4 p. 825-850 Reconfigurations of Gender and Class Relations: Class Differences, Class Condescension and the Changing Place of Class Relations Linda McDowell, Linda McDowell School of Geography, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Linda McDowell, Linda McDowell School of Geography, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 04 August 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00478.xCitations: 68AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Abstract This paper addresses the question of class: its significance, construction, representation in official policies and the changing place and nature of class relations and struggles in contemporary Britain. It argues that both changes in women's labour market participation patterns and a new rhetoric of class condescension and symbolic violence have significant implications both for widening class divisions between women and for the nature of class contacts in contemporary cities. As ties of love and affection and mutual exchange that (purportedly) characterise the home are being transformed by the growing importance of the home as a locus of commodified domestic labour, the home is a new site of inter-class contact and conflict. Thus "private" households are increasingly becoming the sites of class struggle, adding strength to feminist arguments about the inextricable connections between class and gender relations. 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