'Not footprints behind but footsteps forward': working class women who teach

TY - JOUR

T1 - 'Not footprints behind but footsteps forward': working class women who teach

AU - Maguire, M

PY - 2005/3

Y1 - 2005/3

N2 - This paper draws on in-depth interviews with five working class women who work/have worked as schoolteachers in inner city settings. The paper explores their subjective and continuing engagement with their class origins-their footprints in their past-as well as the way in which social class is implicated in their professional contemporary worlds-their footsteps forward. The paper argues that through exploring female classed experiences, social class can be seen as a complex amalgam of economic and material conditions as well as embodied lived experiences and subjectivities.

AB - This paper draws on in-depth interviews with five working class women who work/have worked as schoolteachers in inner city settings. The paper explores their subjective and continuing engagement with their class origins-their footprints in their past-as well as the way in which social class is implicated in their professional contemporary worlds-their footsteps forward. The paper argues that through exploring female classed experiences, social class can be seen as a complex amalgam of economic and material conditions as well as embodied lived experiences and subjectivities.

U2 - 10.1080/0954025042000301276

DO - 10.1080/0954025042000301276

M3 - Article

VL - 17

SP - 3

EP - 18

JO - GENDER AND EDUCATION

JF - GENDER AND EDUCATION

IS - 1

ER -