Understanding inequality : the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, and gender

Arrighi, Barbara A. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0742546799 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0742546780 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780742546790 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780742546783 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xvii, 377 p. ; 23 cm.
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1. Helpful conceptual tools -- 1. Mysterious power of social structures / Charles Lemert -- 2. "They" are all the same, but each member of my group is unique / Stephen Worchel -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Pt. 4. 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 -- Pt. 5. 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 underclass : the politics of law and 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 creating a new immigrant underclass / Marc Cooper -- Pt. 6. 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 -- Pt. 7. 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 Davies-Netzley -- 24. Invisible women / Katha Pollitt -- Pt. 8. 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 -- Pt. 9. 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 -- Pt. 10. 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 -- Pt. 11. Equality and the millennium : the crisis in education has consequences for the -isms -- 35. How Harvard helped curb Title IX's role in admitting women / Karen Blumenthal -- 36. Downsizing higher education : confronting the new realities of the high-tech information age global economy / Walda Katz-Fishman.