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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

8. “I stand with them” … United and Secure

Author : Melanie Reynolds

Published in: Clever Girls

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Abstract

This chapter maps the author’s life from her move from the West Riding of Yorkshire to university in the south-east as a mature student, recounting how she navigated her class identity amongst a predominantly southern and middle-class student/academic body. University offered the chance to shape her own destiny—initially by attempting to edit her past by ‘erasing’ her working-class identity. Studying feminist-oriented histories of class and gender, however, revealed links between the past and her present which challenged any need to purge her working-class roots. Re-examining the lived experiences of nineteenth century working-class women uncovered not only the stories of victimhood, vulnerability and ignorance, but also ‘hidden histories’ of power, independence, control, capability and works-based ‘rights’—a ‘new narrative’ providing ‘foundational knowledge’ on which to build a more secure working-class academic identity in the present.

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1
Ruskin College offers university-standard education to adult learners, without the need for qualifications.
 
2
The Radcliffe Camera (Camera, meaning ‘room’ in Latin; colloquially, ‘Rad Cam’ or ‘The Camera’) is part of Oxford University and houses the Radcliffe Science Library.
 
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Metadata
Title
“I stand with them” … United and Secure
Author
Melanie Reynolds
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Clever Girls

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-29657-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-29658-2

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29658-2_8