Titlebook: Clever Girls; Autoethnographies of Jackie Goode Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Sprin

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,“But you’re not , foreign”: An Autoethnography of a Working-Class Canadian “Passing” in England,king-class Canadian to comfortably passing in middle-class academic environments. Through my status as not-quite-different and yet not-quite-British, I offer a broader perspective on questions of class, race, identity and the inclusions and exclusions that arise from such categories.

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On Be(com)ing Clever,gree in 1982. First in her family to go to university, she was ‘scripted’ by her father to “go out there and show them” and nurtured by a mother to always “do your best”. She and the few others who transferred ‘late’ to grammar school at 13 were reminded that they were “just an experiment”. Her retr

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Too Clever by Half,s and educational achievement in the life of a white woman of the ‘baby-boomer’ generation. There is a noticeable feature common to a number of women writers of my generation: that of the unkind, withholding, even cruel mother who is unloving towards, ‘exploits’ or otherwise tries to ‘thwart’ her da

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Common Ground,e inter-generational transmission of a class sensibility, examining along the way where reading and football and gender fit into formations of class, place and community. Books and authors such as Richard Hoggart and Lynsey Hanley accompany me on the journey.

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,“I stand with them” … United and Secure,w she navigated her class identity amongst a predominantly southern and middle-class student/academic body. University offered the chance to shape her own destiny—initially by attempting to edit her past by ‘erasing’ her working-class identity. Studying feminist-oriented histories of class and gende