In this original book, Claudia Leeb uses a poststructuralist
perspective to chart explicit and tacit assumptions about the
working class in general and the working-class woman specifically
in the classical texts of prominent political philosophers and
social critics including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Rousseau, Marx,
Weber and Bourdieu. The author argues that philosophical discourses
that construct such categories as the Other function as
disciplinary practices that aim at keeping working-class women
either out of or at the margins of academic institutions. She
analyzes interviews with women from a range of national origins in
New York City's elite academic institutions, who identified their
backgrounds as working class. Her analysis foregrounds the
potential of these women to resist class and gender discipline.
"Working-Class Women in Elite Academia makes a significant
contribution to political-theory literature on injustice that
challenges and reconfigures the meanings of woman and working
class. It is of particular interest to political philosophers,
critical theorists, and women's and gender studies scholars.
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