What We Hold in Common : Exploring Women's Lives and Working Class Studies

ISBN 10: 1558612599 / ISBN 13: 9781558612594

Published by Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What We Hold in Common : Exploring Women's Lives and Working Class Studies
• Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558612599
• ISBN 13: 9781558612594
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: rev.
• Condition: Good

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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.

About the Author

Janet Zandy is the editor of Calling Home: Working Class Women's Writings (Rutgers) and Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working Class Consciousness (Rutgers). She is a professor at Rochester Institute of Techonology and editor of Women's Studies Quarterly.