TY - GEN N2 - This collection by three generations of women from predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of the classed, gendered and racialized subject with powerful, engaging, funny and moving stories of transitions through family relationships, education, friendships and work. The developments that take place across a life in processes of 'becoming are examined through the fifteen autoethnographies that form the core of the book, set within an elaboration of the social, educational and geo-political developments that constitute the backdrop to contributors lives. Clever Girls discusses the status of personal experience as 'research data and the memory work that goes into the making of autoethnography-as-poiesis. The collection illustrates the huge potential of autoethnography as research method, mode of inquiry and creative practice to illuminate the specificities and commonalities of experiences of growing up as 'clever girls and to sound a 'call to action against inequality and discrimination. Jackie Goode is Visiting Fellow in Qualitative Research in the School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. AB - This collection by three generations of women from predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of the classed, gendered and racialized subject with powerful, engaging, funny and moving stories of transitions through family relationships, education, friendships and work. The developments that take place across a life in processes of 'becoming are examined through the fifteen autoethnographies that form the core of the book, set within an elaboration of the social, educational and geo-political developments that constitute the backdrop to contributors lives. Clever Girls discusses the status of personal experience as 'research data and the memory work that goes into the making of autoethnography-as-poiesis. The collection illustrates the huge potential of autoethnography as research method, mode of inquiry and creative practice to illuminate the specificities and commonalities of experiences of growing up as 'clever girls and to sound a 'call to action against inequality and discrimination. Jackie Goode is Visiting Fellow in Qualitative Research in the School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. T1 - Clever Girls :Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity / AU - Goode, Jackie. CN - GN316 ID - 917524 KW - Ethnology. KW - Autobiography. SN - 9783030296582 SN - 303029658X TI - Clever Girls :Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-29658-2 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-29658-2 ER -