{"product_id":"working-class-women-writing-class-9781739329815","title":"Working Class Women Writing CLASS","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Petty\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Writing Class Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Writing Class Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a society marked by economic upheaval and increasing ideological shifts to the right, whose stories are truly heard? This ground-breaking volume places \u003cstrong\u003eworking-class women centre stage\u003c\/strong\u003e-both \u003cstrong\u003ein fiction and autobiography\u003c\/strong\u003e-challenging the silences and stereotypes that have long dominated British literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the hard-hitting realism of Livi Michael and Joan Riley's novels-laying bare the material and psychological costs of deprivation and discrimination-to the nuanced reimagining of identity and community in the autobiographies of Jeanette Winterson and her historical predecessors, this book explores \u003cstrong\u003ethe complex interplay of social class with gender, sexuality, and race.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The author analyses \u003cstrong\u003ethe political urgency of fiction and the subjectivity of memoir through a multidisciplinary lens, engaging with Marxist, feminist, and post-structural theorists\u003c\/strong\u003e to interrogate the transformative possibilities of literature and its limitations, demonstrating how working-class women's stories both challenge and complicate our understanding of truth, representation, and social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Essential reading for those interested in \u003cstrong\u003eworking-class writing\u003c\/strong\u003e, gender studies, or the politics of voice, this book offers a powerful reminder: to reconstruct the past and imagine new futures, we must first listen to those on the margins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Writing Class Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47570302992535,"sku":"9781739329815","price":2076.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781739329815.webp?v=1774881206","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/working-class-women-writing-class-9781739329815","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}