ABSTRACT
A powerful aspect of class oppression is the negation of the intelligence of working-class people. Cultural misinformation and negative stereotyping can contribute to a distorted reading of academic abilities. This chapter critically analyses the coagulation of internalized psychic narratives, and external discriminatory factors as a result of the interrelation of social class and gender oppression in higher education. It will consider how the reification and closure implied by traditional class categories can lead to feelings of fraudulence and contradiction in educated working-class feminists. Using feminist theory, humanistic psychology and personal experience as impetus and frame, I explore the extent to which materialist definitions of social class are replicated in the class system of the intellect.
