The double-bind of the ‘Working-Class’ feminist academic: The success of failure or the failure of success?

Class Matters: "Working Class" Women's Perspectives on Social Class

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 19-30

  Reay, Diane ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85071789015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203992159-6     Document Type: Chapter

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