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TY - JOUR
T1 - The making of class and gender through visualizing moral subject formation
AU - Skeggs, Bev
PY - 2005/12/1
Y1 - 2005/12/1
N2 - This article explores how white working-class women are figured as the constitutive limit - in proximity - to national public morality It is argued that four processes: increased ambivalence generated by the reworking of moral boundaries; new forms of neo-liberal governance in which the use of culture is seen as a form of personal responsibility by which new race relations are formed; new ways of investing in one's self as a way of generating exchange-value via affects and display; and the shift to compulsory individuality are reshaping class relations via the making of the self, By showing and telling themselves in public white working-class women are forced to display their lack of moral value according to the symbolic values generated by the above processes, It is a no-win situation for them unless we shift our perspective from exchange-value to use-value.
AB - This article explores how white working-class women are figured as the constitutive limit - in proximity - to national public morality It is argued that four processes: increased ambivalence generated by the reworking of moral boundaries; new forms of neo-liberal governance in which the use of culture is seen as a form of personal responsibility by which new race relations are formed; new ways of investing in one's self as a way of generating exchange-value via affects and display; and the shift to compulsory individuality are reshaping class relations via the making of the self, By showing and telling themselves in public white working-class women are forced to display their lack of moral value according to the symbolic values generated by the above processes, It is a no-win situation for them unless we shift our perspective from exchange-value to use-value.
KW - Class
KW - Culture
KW - Limit
KW - Morality
KW - Self
U2 - 10.1177/0038038505058381
DO - 10.1177/0038038505058381
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:28844464653
VL - 39
SP - 965
EP - 982
JO - Sociology
JF - Sociology
SN - 0038-0385
IS - 5
ER -