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Understanding Inequality : the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender.
ISBN:
9781461646549

9781299790438

9780742546790
Title:
Understanding Inequality : the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender.
Author:
Arrighi, Barbara A.
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Contents:
Part One: Helpful Conceptual Tools -- 1 Mysterious Power of Social Structures / Charles Lemert -- 2 "They" Are All the Same, but Each Member of My Groupis Unique / Stephen Worchel -- Part Two: Embedded Ideology: Racism/Ethnocentrism and Sexism -- 3 Black Women and Feminism bell hooks -- 4 Divining Our Racial Themes / Derrick Bell -- 5 Size 6: The Western Women's Harem / Fatema Mernissi -- Part Three: The Other Wears Many Faces -- 6 Diversity and Its Discontents / Arturo Madrid -- 7 Coping With the Alienation of White, Male Students / Billie Wright Dziech -- 8 The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- Part Four: Structured Inequality--The Invisible Iron Cage of Class -- 9 The Double-Bind of the "Working-Class," Feminist Academic: The Success of Failure or the Failure of Success? / Diane Reay -- 10 (In) Secure Times: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late Twentieth Century / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Judi Addelston, and Julia Marusza -- Part Five: Structured Inequality--Race/Ethnicity -- 11 A Black Woman Took My Job / Michael Kimmel -- 12 Are Men Marginal to the Family? Insights from Chicago's Inner City / Haya Stier and Marta Tienda -- 13 Policing the Ghetto UndercIass: The Politics of Lawand Law Enforcement / William J. Chambliss -- 14 America's Iron Curtain: The Border Patrol State / Leslie Marmon Silko -- 15 The Heartland's Raw Deal: How Meatpacking is Creatinga New Immigrant UndercIass / Marc Cooper -- Part Six: Structured Inequality--Acquiring Gender -- 16 Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" / Judith Butler -- 17 Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology / Judith Lorber -- 18 Toward Safer Societies: Punishment, Masculinities, and Violence against Women / Laureen Snider -- 19 Tomboys Yes, Janegirls Never / Barbara A. Arrighi -- 20 Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation and Female Behavior / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Part Seven: Corporate Gatekeeping: Fitting In -- 21 Talking from 9 to 5: How Women's and Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work / Deborah Tannen -- 22 Women in the Power Elite / Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff -- 23 Women above the Glass Ceiling: Perceptions on Corporate Mobility and Strategies for Success / Sally Ann Dauies-Netzley -- 24 Invisible Women / Katha Pollitt -- Part Eight: Women's Equality: Progress and Resistance -- 25 Women against Women: American Antisuffragism, 1880-1920 / Jane Jerome Camhi -- 26 Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media / Susan J. Douglas -- 27 Mating, Marriage, and the Marketplace: A Survey of College Students' Attitudes and Expectations / Barbara A. Arrighi -- Part Nine: The Price of Deviance -- 28 The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter / Kathleen Rowe -- 29 Black Man with a Nose Job: How We Defend Ethnic Beauty in America / Lawrence Otis Graham -- 30 Hitting Bottom: Homelessness, Poverty, and Masculinity / Timothy Nonn -- 31 Older Men as Invisible Men in Contemporary Society / Edward H. Thompson -- Part Ten: Patriarchy and Its Consequences -- 32 The Subjection of Women / John Stuart Mill -- 33 Real Rape / Susan Estrich -- 34 Clarence Thomas, Patriarchal Discourse, and Public/Private Spheres / Mary F. Rogers -- Part Eleven: Equality and the Millennium: The Crisis in Education Has Consequences for the -Isms -- 35 How Harvard Helped Curb Title IX's Rolein Admitting Women / Karen Blumenthal -- 36 Downsizing Higher Education: Confronting the New Realities of the High-Tech Information Age Global Economy / Walda Katz-Pishman.
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Electronic Resources
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.