Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory [Paperback]

The voices of 20 women from working-class backgrounds are heard in this collection of essays. Each of the women has lived through the process of academic socializationas both student and teacherand each has thought long and deeply about her experiences from an explicitly feminist perspective.

MICHELLE M. TOKARCZYKis assistant professor of English at Goucher College.ELIZABETH A. FAYis assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  

A book review can only flatten the multiple dimensions and textures of story inWorking Class Women in the Academy.Mary Cappello, The Radical Teacher 

Virtually all the essays in this provocative collection, in one way or another, celebrate different ways of teaching and knowing that can come from the intersection of race, class, ethnicity, religion, region, sexual orientation, and gender.Debra Kaufman, Academe 

From the beginning of Michelle Tokarczyk and Elizabeth Fay's collection of essays, I was hooked. . . . It has been a long time since a collection has moved me in this way.Mary M. Moynihan,NWSA Journal