This chapter draws on debates from France, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom that work on issues of class, feminism and gender, sexuality, and race. It assumes a knowledge of Bourdieu’s use of capitals-economic, social, symbolic, and cultural- as they accrue in bodies over periods of time in volumes and compositions in different social spaces (see Bourdieu, 1987, 1989; Skeggs, 1997). It is a condensed version of the arguments presented in Class, Self, Culture (Skeggs, 2004).

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