Between Bread and Roses: An Exploration of Aesthetics Among Low-Income Women in Scotland.

该项目将探讨工人阶级妇女如何参与苏格兰的艺术和文化机构。我将以来自格拉斯哥低收入背景的女性为研究对象，探讨如何通过个人与艺术、自然和风景的关系来理解工人阶级的身份。这种方法代表了主流阶级研究的一种转变，这种研究将工人阶级的生活减少到经济环境和对社会流动性的追求。为了做到这一点，我首先认识到，与艺术、自然和景观的关系可以以多种方式表现出来。在与文化机构的传统接触中，在妇女如何穿着和装饰自己的家，在她们如何与建筑和自然环境相联系，以及在她们如何讲述自己的生活史方面。通过对工人阶级女性的直觉、哲学和内在的探索，将家庭和世俗并置，最终目标是为更多的工人阶级女性开辟艺术和文化领域，同时为性别、阶级和美学的学术辩论做出贡献。该项目将使往往处于社会边缘的妇女参与进来。低收入环境下的老年女性，与更广泛的女权主义讨论有关女性如何随着年龄的增长而在社会中变得“隐形”或被忽视。在低收入的单亲妈妈中，由于时间压力和贫困，创造力可能被认为是一种奢侈或自我放纵。这个项目将避免进一步孤立这些妇女，认真对待他们作为合作者和共同创造者。因此，该博士将利用社会人类学，协作社会科学，美术和数字媒体的方法。

This project will address how working-class women engage with the arts and cultural institutions in Scotland. Focused on women from low-income backgrounds in Glasgow, I will explore how working- class identity can be understood through personal relationships to art, nature, and landscape. This approach represents a shift away from mainstream studies of class which reduce working-class life to economic circumstance and the quest for social mobility. To do this, I begin with the understanding that a relationship to art, nature and landscape can manifest in multiple ways. In traditional engagements with cultural institutions, in how women dress and adorn their homes, in how they relate to their built and natural environment and in how they tell their life histories. Juxtaposing the domestic and the mundane with an exploration of working-class women's intuition, philosophy, and interiority, the ultimate goal is to open-up artistic and cultural domains to more working-class women while contributing to academic debates on gender, class, and aesthetics. The project will engage women who are often on the peripherals of society. Older women in low- income circumstance, connecting to broader feminist discussion of how women become 'invisible' or ignored within society as they age. Together with single mothers in low-income circumstance where, due to time pressures and poverty, creativity may be construed as a luxury or self-indulgent. This project will avoid further isolating these women by treating them seriously as collaborators and co- creators. As such, this PhD will utilise methods from social anthropology, collaborative social science, fine art, and digital media.