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This 3 page paper discusses a quote from the book Women without Class by Julie Bettie. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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this: "Differing race-class performances of femininity took hold as girls defined themselves relationally in opposition to multiple others and as working-class girls adopted alternative badges of dignity that worked, at
times, as a kind of resistance to symbolically heal class and race injuries (Bettie 190). First, that quote ought to be taken out and shot. Anyone who indulges in this
kind of jargon-laden, obscure writing is not trying to explain things clearly but is instead indulging themselves by showing off their "scholarship." Lets first translate the thing from Bettie to
English and then perhaps figure out what it means. Heres one possible translation: Girls from different races and social classes have different concepts of "femininity." In order to discover its
meaning to them, each girl sees herself in opposition to many others. In the case of working class girls, they find an innate dignity within themselves that allows them to
resist adopting others opinions of them as their own. By standing up for themselves, they begin to find common ground with those of other social classes and races. It seems
that Bettie wrote the book largely because she felt that the popular best-seller Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher was too narrow in its scope
(Bettie). Pipher argues that Hamlet "shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a girl, Ophelia is happy and free, but with adolescent she loses herself. When she falls
in love with Hamlet, she lives only for his approval" (Bettie, quoting Pipher 2). Pipher attributes all of Ophelias emotional problems to her gender, and although Bettie agrees that "we
live in a girl-poisoning culture," she was "disturbed by the way she framed the stories of the girls she had counseled" (Bettie 2). Pipher, in other words, has taken too
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