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Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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This book follows the figure of 'the clever girl' from the post-war
to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of
contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of
meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining
social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of
'opportunity', 'aspiration' and 'choice' is often experienced as an
anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study, the book
explores the struggle to move away from home and traditional
notions of femininity; the persistent problems associated with
women's embodiment; the pressures of class and racial divisions;
the new subjectivities of the neoliberal era; and the generational
conflict underpinning austerity. The book ends with a consideration
of feminism's place as a phantom presence in this history of clever
girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women's
writing and to those interested in what has been one of the
dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to
declining mobility.
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