Bread and Roses : Voices of Australian Academics From the Working Class

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: A Working-Class World-View in an Academic Environment REFERENCES PART 1: IDENTITY 1. THE 'C' WORD: Class, Migrants and Academia REFERENCE 2. I DIDN'T WORK FOR IT:The Acquisition of an Academic Habitus (Or How a Working-Class Kid Got a Middle-Class Job) EARLY AMBITIONS. STUMBLING INTO UNIVERSITY -- THE FIRST TIME STUMBLING OUT OF UNIVERSITY -- AND BACK IN AGAIN TAKING MY PLACE AT HOME BEING AN ACADEMIC REFERENCES. 3. 'STUMBLING FORWARDS -- UNDERSTANDING BACKWARDS': Some Puzzles in the Life of One Working-Class Breakthrough ON ORIGINS AND MEMORY SOME PAINFUL DISCOVERIES FURTHER DISCOVERIES MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL? REFERENCES. 4. WHICH VOICE? WHICH WORKING CLASS? NOTES REFERENCES 5. WOG WESTIE FEMINIST: Or the Evidence of Experience REFERENCES 6. REINVENTING THE SELF IN ACADEMIA: Negotiating the Intersections of Class, Race and Gender INTRODUCTION. INSTITUTIONS AND IDENTITY: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN RACE, CLASS AND GENDER REFERENCES 7. A SPACE FOR SELF-FASHIONING: An Antipodean Red-Diaper Baby Goes to University in the Sixties I II III IV V VI. TABLE OF CONTENTS ; INTRODUCTION: A Working-Class World-View in an Academic Environment; REFERENCES ; PART 1: IDENTITY ; 1. THE 'C' WORD: Class, Migrants and Academia; REFERENCE ; 2. I DIDN'T WORK FOR IT:The Acquisition of an Academic Habitus (Or How a Working-Class Kid Got a Middle-Class Job); EARLY AMBITIONS.;Bread and Roses is an Australian first, a collection of stories from academics who identify as coming from working-class backgrounds. At once inspiring and challenging, the collection demonstrates how individual narratives are both personal and structural, in that they illustrate the ways in which social forces shape individual lives. Central themes in the book are generational changes in university education provision in Australia, the complexities of coming from a working class background and being female, or coming from a working class background and being female and a recent migrant, and the particular challenges facing students and staff from rural and regional areas. An essential read for anyone interested in widening participation programs in higher education, including administrators, academics, past and present students, Bread and Roses is both a map for those who want to undertake a similar journey and a community for those who want to join.