>Class tend to be defined as something lacking content or in the negative
>rather than the positive. This is difficult for me because its a big
>aspect of my subjectivity especially since entering the middleclass domain
>of higher education. Is that subjectivity merely a false consciousness or
>is their content there. There seems to be important bourgeois tools
>involved that I don't want to or have my children denied of, yet I also
>don't want to lose my consciousness in the process. If its simply false the
>solution lies in appropriating a bourgeois conscious, but if there is
>content it becomes a little more difficult. I see Walkerdine pointing
>toward the latter.
>
Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183