For the Honour of the School: Class in the Girls' School Story

Autor/in	Hollowell, Clare
Titel	For the Honour of the School: Class in the Girls' School Story
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 45 (2014) 4, S.310-323 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-013-9213-8
Schlagwörter	Working Class; Females; Femininity; Foreign Countries; Sex Role; Social Class; Childrens Literature; Expectation; Single Sex Schools; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeiterklasse; Weibliches Geschlecht; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Ausland; Geschlechterrolle; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Expectancy; Erwartung; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article explores the constructions of class in British girls' school stories. Feminist scholarship has, to some extent, reclaimed the school story, pointing to the widening of acceptable gender roles for female characters in girls' school stories, compared to their counterparts in mixed-gender stories, and indeed real life. While the limitations of this middle/upper class milieu have been noted, they are less often explored. I use readings of Bourdieu as applied to femininities by scholars such as McRobbie and Skeggs to examine how the lived experience of class can trouble the status quo. School stories often limit encounters with working-class characters to servants, recipients of patronage or straightforward threats. However, in Brent-Dyer's "A Problem for the Chalet School" (1956) a working-class character enters the school on her own terms. Her presence sparks the reaffirmation of the expectations for successful upper-class femininity. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10