Clever Girls: Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity

1. Introduction.- 2. The classed, gendered and racialized subject.- 3. On Autoethnography.- 4. On Be(com)ing Clever; Liz Thomas.- 5. 'Too Clever by Half'; Jackie Goode.- 6. Common Ground; Nell Farrell.- 7. From "Too Womanish, Girl!" to Clever Womanish Woman; Christa Welsh.- 8. "I stand with them" ... united and secure; Melanie Reynolds.- 9. Things You Wouldn't Say To Your Daughter; Panya Banjoko.- 10. Being the One Good Thing; Sarah Ward.- 11. Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Jan Bradford.- 12. 'Must Try Harder': Anxiety, Self-Shaping and Structures of Feeling, Then and Now; Tracey Loughran.- 13.Single Indian woman; very accomplished but can't make round chapatis; Meena Rajput.- 14. "But you're not really foreign": an authoethnography of a working-class Canadian 'passing' in England; Kristin O'Donnell.- 15. 'Untitled'; Motsabi Rooper.- 16. "Is this yours ... Did you write this?"; Victoria Adukwei Bulley.- 17. Letter to My Younger Self; Claire Mitchell.- 18. Fractured Lives and Border Crossings; Emily Green.- 19. Clever Girls in Conversation.- 20. Conclusions.