Racism, sexism, power, and ideology / Colette Guillaumin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillaumin, Colette.

Series:

Critical studies in racism and migration.

Critical studies in racism and migration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

Sexism.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Guillaumin tackles the links between the daily materiality of social relationships and mental conventions. Materiality and ideology (in the sense of 'perception of things') are two sides of the same coin: those who are objects in social relations are so in both thought and reality.

Contents:

chapter Introduction

(Re)constructing the categories of race and 'sex: the work of a precursor / Danielle Juteau-Lee

part Part I

chapter 1 The specific characteristics of racist ideology (1972)

chapter The idea of race and its elevation to autonomous scientific and legal status

chapter I know it's not nice, but

The changing face of race

chapter 4 Wildcat immigration (1984)

chapter 5 The rapacious hands of destiny (1984)

part Part II

chapter 6 Race and Nature: the system of marks (1977)

The idea of a natural group and social relationships

chapter Women and theories about society

The effects on theory of the anger of the oppressed

chapter Sexism, a right-wing constant of any discourse

A theoretical note

chapter 9 The practice of power and belief in Nature

Part I The appropriation of women

part Part III

Part II The naturalist discourse

chapter 11 The question of difference (1979)

chapter Herrings and tigers

Animal behaviour and human society

chapter 13 Nature, history and materialism (1981).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-86985-1

1-138-18026-2

1-280-32170-9

0-203-42224-4

1-134-86986-X

9780203422243

OCLC:

648044528