Tag: proletarian feminism

I’m trying to read more about working class femininity stuff and about working class women in general, have any recs? :D I’ve been writing rambly stuff I haven’t posted yet from my own experiences but it’d be nice to read stuff by others.

Formations of class and gender is good, women without class is really good, Kelly Buckley’s http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54207/1/U567059.pdf

https://www.academia.edu/632774/Ringrose_J._and_Renold_E._2012_Teen_girls_working_class_femininity_and_resistance_Re-theorizing_fantasy_and_desire_in_educational_contexts_of_heterosexualized_violence_ this I just found

and while 

White Trash: Race and Class in America isn’t primarily about gender there’s a fantastic piece about porn in it

White Trash: Race and Class in America

https://www.academia.edu/4885319/Masculinity_and_Femininity_Do_Sex_Race_and_Social_Class_Matter

I’ve had more trouble finding stuff that really gets into class as it intersects with gender and race (and if anyone has recs I want them)

I can’t find a reasonably priced way to access this but I want it really badly 

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540250701535568?journalCode=cgee20

this looks interesting but I haven’t read it:

Elite Girls’ Schooling, Social Class and Sexualised Popular Culture

This looks cool but I haven’t read it: http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Zoot-Suit-Nationalism-Cultural/dp/0822343037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444889773&sr=8-1&keywords=the+woman+in+the+zoot+suit

I have an article on pachucas and feminism somewhere but I can’t find where I got it

I’ve been trying to articulate why I think femininity is necessary to the revolution for a long time

and I think I finally got part of it, which is that masculinity is hegemonic in idealized and romanticized images of labor and is kind of the “bone” capital threw male labourers (especially white male) so they’d throw the rest of us under the bus.  

Like construing manual labor as romantic and the work of “real men” as well as using it as the hegemonic image of labor itself both denies women and other working class people in non-masculine fields the label “worker” (which can help undermine class consciousness and solidarity) and also serves as a way for male workers of this sort to see the bourgeois as insufficiently masculine and thus inferior so they can feel comfortable in their subordinate position (sort of)

Also keeping hegemonic masculinity and other power structures would prevent the formation of a truly revolutionary society, as if we say keep patriarchy, men will develop hierarchical power structures to maintain patriarchy, and if we keep white supremacy we’ll develop power structures to maintain it, which will lead to the recreation of a class system, I think.

Working Class Women

Don’t have access to the hyper feminine hyper sexual post feminist masquerade, but also don’t have access to the anti-feminine anti-sexual second wave position, because on a working class body both reflect stigmatized “deviant” femininities, the first being the slut, the second the slob.

Cause like my own performance of excessive femininity

is something that like I came to as I accepted my status as working class, and accepted that I am going to remain working class because of various factors including disability and education, despite coming from a background of privilege.  I clung to my “respectability” when I was younger and had hopes of (and believed in the virtue of) upward mobility.

Now as I have accepted and embraced my class status, I perform disrespectable working class femininity as a marker of non-aspiration (I do not aspire to upward mobility, unless the desire to live in a classless society constitutes that) as well as of class pride (I am not ashamed, I am what I am) and also as a means of indicating working class solidarity, in the form of not aspiring to leave my class, but advance the working class as a whole.  Also I perhaps am compensating for accent and mannerisms acquired during a posh childhood, so that it is clear I am not trying to pass for middle class to my peers.

Also All These Studies On Working Class Femininities

Makes me wonder if like… we could set up our own experiment or study or whatever as a bunch of non-academic working class feminine people and like maybe get more valuable (if less academically prestigious) conclusions cause like… we understand our own experiences or like whatever?

Cause like that one on celeb culture was cool but like I want to hear from other working class feminine people who intentionally perform stigmatized versions of working class femininity