Understanding inequality : the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, and gender / edited by Barbara A. Arrighi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arrighi, Barbara A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States.

United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Minorities--United States--Social conditions.

Minorities.

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

Sex role--United States.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xvii, 377 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from The New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification, that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the basic hermeneutics for considering new thought on ethnicity, class, and gender in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Mysterious power of social structures / Charles Lemert

"They" are all the same, but each member of my group is unique / Stephen Worchel

Black women and feminism / Bell Hooks

Divining our racial themes / Derrick Bell

Size 6 : the western women's harem / Fatema Mernissi

Diversity and its discontents / Arturo Madrid

Coping with the alienation of white male students / Billie Wright Dziech

The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir

The double-bind of the "working-class" feminist academic / Diane Reay

(In) secure times : constructing white working-class masculinities in the late twentieth century / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Judi Addelston, and Julia Marusza

A black women took my job / Michael Kimmel

Are men marginal to the family? insights from Chicago's inner city / Haya Stier and Marta Tienda

Policing the ghetto underclass : the politics of law and law enforcement / William J. Chamblis

America's iron curtain : the border patrol state / Leslie Marmon Silko

The heartland's raw deal : how meatpacking is creating a new immigrant underclass / Marc Cooper

Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex" / Judith Butler

Believing is seeing : biology as ideology / Judith Lorber

Toward safer societies : punishment, masculinities, and violence against women / Laureen Snider

Tomboys yes, janegirls never / Barbara A. Arrighi

Hormonal hurricanes : menstruation and female behavior / Anne Fausto-Sterling

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

Women in the power elite / Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff

Women above the glass ceiling : perceptions on corporate mobility and strategies for success / Sally Ann Davies-Netzley

Invisible women / Katha Pollitt

Women against women : American antisuffragism, 1880-1920 / Jane Jerome Camhi

Where the girls are : growing up female with the mass media / Susan J. Douglas

Mating, marriage, and the marketplace : a survey of college students' attitudes and expectations / Barbara A. Arrighi

The unruly woman : gender and the genres of laughter / Kathleen Rowe

Black man with a nose job : how we defend ethnic beauty in America / Lawrence Otis Graham

Hitting bottom : homelessness, poverty, and masculinity / Timothy Nonn

Older men as invisible men in contemporary society / Edward H. Thompson

The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill

Real rape / Susan Estrich

Clarence Thomas, patriarchal discourse, and public/private spheres / Mary F. Rogers

How Harvard helped curb Title IX's role in admitting women / Karen Blumenthal

Downsizing higher education : confronting the new realities of the high-tech information age global economy / Walda Katz-Fishman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780742546783

9780742546790

0742546780

0742546799

OCLC:

70174840