Marginal groups and mainstream American culture / edited by Yolanda Estes ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Estes, Yolanda.

Series:

Feminist ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social--United States--Case studies.

Marginality, Social.

People with social disabilities--United States--Case studies.

People with social disabilities.

Victims--United States--Case studies.

Victims.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2000]

Summary:

Bringing together accounts of marginalization from many different disciplines and perspectives, this collection offers a basis for enhancing our understanding of this process -- and for working toward meaningful social change.

Contents:

1. Marginalized Identities: Individuality, Agency, and Theory / Diana Tietjens Meyers 13

2. Return to Gender, Address Unknown: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Concept of Gender in Feminist Theory and Practice / Christine Overall 24

3. The Night They Bombed Old Compton Street: Reflections on the Position of Gay People in Blair's "New Britain" / Gavin Brown 51

4. Comblement/Fulfillment: Toward an Ontological Ethics of Sex / Jami Weinstein, Jeffrey Bussolini 71

5. Persistent Problems, Illusions of Progress, and Mechanisms of Marginalization / Patricia Smith 96

6. The Smartest Black Man in Union, South Carolina: Complimentary Racism and the Dialectic of Marginalization / Arnold Lorenzo Farr 111

7. Story of a Hyphenated-Consciousness / Sandra Bartky 120

8. Marginalization and Political Identity: The Experience of Native Americans / Rebecca Tsosie 138

9. God, Us, and the World: Marginalization, the Role of Perception, and Conservative Christianity / Patrick D. Hopkins 153

10. On Evangelizing Children: Breaking the Cycle of Dogmatic Belief Systems / Wallace A. Murphree 172

11. Confessions of a Refugee: My Life As a Loner/Rebel/Renegade / Yolanda Estes 193

12. Toward a Poetics of the Disabled Body / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 208

13. Cultural Change and Institutional Entrenchment: Single Mothers, Working Mothers, and the Crisis of Caregiving / Patricia Smith 226

14. By Right and Not by Virtue: Rights of Retarded People in a Just Society / Sigal R. Benporath 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.

ISBN:

0700610472

0700610480

OCLC:

44110323