Reviewed works women without class girls race and identity by julie bettie. In this examination of white and mexican american girls coming of age in californias central valley julie bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and at times fails to be constructed in relationship to color ethnicity gender and sexuality. The tile of the book itself informs its readers that it is an interrogation of women as class subjects although studies of class are not new in sociology julie betties book is interesting because it looks at the intersection between class race and gender in the sphere of education in terms of gestures and performance of class. In this ethnographic examination of mexican american and white girls coming of age in californias central valley julie bettie turns class theory on its head asking what cultural gestures are involved in the performance of class and how class subjectivity is constructed in relationship to color ethnicity gender and sexuality. In this examination of white and mexican american girls coming of age in californias central valley julie bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and at times fails to be constructed in relationship to color ethnicity gender and sexuality documenting the categories of subculture and style that high