you're right, the staging is telling, but that ain't a good enough reason to muster a tsk tsk tsk against any such discussion. me thinks also that it would be interesting to take up the issues that both doug and raphael have hinted at: identity in relation to class politics, is identity important to class politics or not?, is there a significant difference in status b/n forms of class identity/composition and the range of other identities more regularly cited (gay, etc.) or not?; and so on.
any thoughts, troubling or otherwise on these, from anyone?
angela
[and apologies for the typos....]