ABSTRACT
This book is about some women of the working class, about particular and personal journeys, about complicated lives lived within the shifting landscape of class and gendered identity in Britain since the 1950s; and about the importance of feminism as a source of political inspiration, social analysis and change. Most specifically it is about the ways in which, as working class women, we have learned things from life, through our experiences and from the struggle to change unsatisfactory circumstances. It is about informal learning and formal education and about how both have helped to shape our lives; about the knowledge that has been useful in the struggle for our liberation; and about the interpretations that can be made to throw some theoretical light upon the particularities and commonalities of our various, related and different journeys.
