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The snippets of women's stories are the absolute best part of this book, and the way Thapan teases out class among the women she studies is really interesting. Or, it *would* be really interesting if her writing was more accessible.

I know it's the academic format and all, but a lot of the time I think that books like this would be better if they just presented nice long passages of interviews with the people studied, without commentary. I know I'm an oral history/story junky, but I just think that would be better than the writer as ultimate authority/presenter of information.

There were just too many points in this book in which I felt like Thapan was getting in her own way or using intensely academic language to describe things that are common sense.

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