ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the voices of a group of white working-class women living on a council estate (public housing) in the UK drawing on a research project I conducted between 2005 and 2009, which examined how this group of women find value for themselves and their families. All of the women are mothers and have mixed-race children. The women reside on the St Anns estate in Nottingham, an inner-city neighbourhood which has been subject to poor housing, poverty and unemployment for many generations (Coates and Silburn 1970; Johns 2002). The women who live on this estate often say they suffer from negative stereotypes and stigmatisation because of where they live, because they are working class and because they have mixed-race children.
