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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Spirometry

Being the One Good Thing,e: a way of masking the pain of ‘failing’ at adolescent explorations of love and sexuality and an alternative to the perceived weakness of traditional femininity—while bringing its own set of pressures and projections. It examines a working-class family’s proud expectations of a clever girl’s appare

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Primary 7 girls when I joined my Primary 1B classmates at a Scottish state primary school in a steadily declining mining town in the mid-1970s. But one day, when I am still only five years old, Teacher tells Mum she is worried about me. I have become very quiet—.. I no longer read fluently—.. I no

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,Single Indian Woman; Very Accomplished but Can’t Make Round Chapatis,e the only children of colour. It is a story of expectations, duties, hopes and dreams lost and found. My parents’ immigrant story was of ‘downward mobility’ and of ambiguous status in relation to social class. My story contains both familiar and unfamiliar elements—parental aspirations for a daught

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Emmenagogue

,‘Untitled’,bringing presented me with dilemmas around which world I ‘properly’ inhabited. This autoethnographic story traces how I experienced education as a struggle to reconcile my parents’ unspoken aspirations for me to be ‘middle class’, with the contradictory messaging I received from my peers, teachers a

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,‘Is this ,? … Did , write this?’,m teachers in response to any work of mine which was of a particularly high standard. The underlying assumption seemed to be that being a high achiever and a Black girl were mutually exclusive. The acquisition of a first and a higher degree belie this. Nevertheless, my efforts to build a freelance c

Insulin

A Letter to My Younger Self,ss’ and ‘security’ within/through higher education. Growing access to higher education has been promoted as a means of reducing class inequalities through improving social mobility. I describe a contrasting reality in which inequities are exacerbated by scarcity of money and time, and in which what

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