Understanding Inequality : The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

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Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary

This book brings together essays by some of the most influential writers of our time--including Derrick Bell, bell hooks, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, and Deborah Tannen--offering a systematic and integrated portrait of social inequality in America today. Unusual in its combination of both statistical analyses and descriptive accounts, this up-to-date book is a cogent introduction to race, class, gender and other current dimensions of social and economic inequalities. It also serves as an invaluable reference source for any university, research, or large public library.

Author Biography

Barbara A. Arrighi is associate professor of sociology at Northern Kentucky University

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Part One Helpful Conceptual Tools
Mysterious Power of Social Structures
3(9)
Charles Lemert
``They'' Are All the Same, but Each Member of My Group Is Unique
12(7)
Stephen Worchel
Part Two Embedded Ideology: Racism/Ethnocentrism and Sexism
Black Women and Feminism
19(6)
bell hooks
Divining Our Racial Themes
25(8)
Derrick Bell
Cowboys and Arabs
33(3)
Laura Goodstein
What's in a Name: Confessions of a Mafia Princess
36(7)
Erica-Lynn Huberty
Part Three The Other Wears Many Faces
Diversity and Its Discontents
43(8)
Arturo Madrid
Coping with the Alienation of White Male Students
51(5)
Billie Wright Dziech
The Second Sex
56(11)
Simone de Beauvoir
Part Four Structured Inequality---The Invisible Iron Cage of Class
Masculinities and Athletic Careers
67(9)
Michael Messner
The Double-Bind of the ``Working-Class'' Feminist Academic: The Success of Failure or the Failure of Success?
76(7)
Diane Reay
(In)Secure Times: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late Twentieth Century
83(10)
Michelle Fine
Lois Weis
Judi Addelston
Julia Marusza
Part Five Structured Inequality--Race/Ethnicity
Are Men Marginal to the Family? Insights from Chicago's Inner City
93(11)
Haya Stier
Marta Tienda
Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement
104(9)
William J. Chambliss
Near Detroit, a Familiar Sting in Being a Black Driver
113(3)
Robyn Meredith
America's Iron Curtain: The Border Patrol State
116(6)
Leslie Marmon Silko
The Heartland's Raw Deal: How Meatpacking Is Creating a New Immigrant Underclass
122(7)
Marc Cooper
Part Six Structured Inequality--Acquiring Gender
Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ``Sex''
129(8)
Judith Butler
Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology
137(8)
Judith Lorber
Towards Safer Societies: Punishment, Masculinities, and Violence Against Women
145(11)
Laureen Snider
Tomboys Yes, Janegirls Never
156(5)
Barbara A. Arrighi
Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation and Female Behavior
161(12)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Part Seven Corporate Gatekeeping: Fitting In
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
173(9)
Deborah Tannen
Women in the Power Elite
182(7)
Richard L. Zweigenhaft
G. William Domhoff
Women above the Glass Ceiling: Perceptions on Corporate Mobility and Strategies for Success
189(9)
Sally Ann Davies-Netzley
What Do Men Want?
198(9)
Michael S. Kimmel
Part Eight Women's Equality: Progress and Resistance
Women against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1880-1920
207(14)
Jane Jerome Camhi
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
221(11)
Susan J. Douglas
Mating, Marriage, and the Marketplace: A Survey of College Students' Attitudes and Expectations
232(11)
Barbara A. Arrighi
Part Nine Aging: Devalued Women and Men
Jane Fonda, Barbara Bush and Other Aging Bodies: Femininity and the Limits of Resistance
243(11)
Myra Dinnerstein
Rose Weitz
The Aging Woman in Popular Film: Underrepresented, Unattractive, Unfriendly, and Unintelligent
254(7)
Doris G. Bazzini
William D. McIntosh
Stephen M. Smith
Sabrina Cook
Caleigh Harris
Older Men as Invisible Men in Contemporary Society
261(10)
Edward H. Thompson
Part Ten The Price of Deviance
The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter
271(15)
Kathleen Rowe
Too Old, Too Ugly, and Not Deferential to Men
286(5)
Christine Craft
When an Anchor's Face Is Not Her Fortune
291(2)
Eleanor Randolph
Black Man with a Nose Job: How We Defend Ethnic Beauty in America
293(6)
Lawrence Otis Graham
Part Eleven Patriarchy and Its Consequences
The Subjection of Women
299(10)
John Stuart Mill
Real Rape
309(15)
Susan Estrich
Clarence Thomas, Patriarchal Discourse, and Public/Private Spheres
324(15)
Mary F. Rogers
Part Twelve Equality and the Millennium: The Crisis in Education Has Consequences for the ``Isms''
Downsizing Higher Education: Confronting the New Realities of the High-Tech Information Age Global Economy
339(12)
Walda Katz-Fishman
Epilogue 351(2)
Permissions 353(4)
Index 357(12)
About the Editor 369

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