Formation of Class and Gender: Skeggs

Methods:

• longitudinal(12years, 3 years being participant observation)
• 83 white women from the north west of england
• Focused on how women create a sense of self and the part that social class and the search for respectability plays in female working class identity
• Biographies of the women, their partners, friends and teachers.
• She lived in the community of the women studied