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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Helpful Conceptual Tools -- 1. Mysterious Power of Social Structures -- 2. "They" Are All the Same, but Each Member of My Group Is Unique -- Pt. 2. Embedded Ideology: Racism/Ethnocentrism and Sexism -- 3. Black Women and Feminism -- 4. Divining Our Racial Themes -- 5. Cowboys and Arabs -- 6. What's in a Name: Confessions of a Mafia Princess -- Pt. 3. The Other Wears Many Faces -- 7. Diversity and Its Discontents -- 8. Coping with the Alienation of White Male Students -- 9. The Second Sex -- Pt. 4. Structured Inequality - The Invisible Iron Cage of Class -- 10. Masculinities and Athletic Careers -- 11. The Double-Bind of the "Working-Class" Feminist Academic: The Success of Failure or the Failure of Success? -- 12. (In)Secure Times: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late Twentieth Century -- Pt. 5. Structured Inequality - Race/Ethnicity -- 13. Are Men Marginal to the Family? Insights from Chicago's Inner City -- 14. Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement -- 15. Near Detroit, a Familiar Sting in Being a Black Driver -- 16. America's Iron Curtain: The Border Patrol State -- 17. The Heartland's Raw Deal: How Meatpacking Is Creating a New Immigrant Underclass -- Pt. 6. Structured Inequality - Acquiring Gender -- 18. Bodies the Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" -- 19. Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology -- 20. Towards Safer Societies: Punishment, Masculinities, and Violence Against Women -- 21. Tomboys Yes, Janegirls Never -- 22. Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation and Female Behavior -- Pt. 7. Corporate Gatekeeping: Fitting In -- 23. 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 -- 24. Women in the Power Elite -- 25. Women above the Glass Ceiling: Perceptions on Corporate Mobility and Strategies for Success -- 26. What Do Men Want? -- Pt. 8. Women's Equality: Progress and Resistance -- 27. Women against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1880-1920 -- 28. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media -- 29. Mating, Marriage, and the Marketplace: A Survey of College Students' Attitudes and Expectations -- Pt. 9. Aging: Devalued Women and Men -- 30. Jane Fonda, Barbara Bush and Other Aging Bodies: Femininity and the Limits of Resistance -- 31. The Aging Woman in Popular Film: Underrepresented, Unattractive, Unfriendly, and Unintelligent -- 32. Older Men as Invisible Men in Contemporary Society -- Pt. 10. The Price of Deviance -- 33. The Unruly Women: Gender and the Genres of Laughter -- 34. Too Old, Too Ugly, and Not Deferential to Men -- 35. When an Anchor's Face Is Not Her Fortune -- 36. Black Man with a Nose Job: How We Defend Ethnic Beauty in America -- Pt. 11. Patriarchy and Its Consequences -- 37. The Subjection of Women -- 38. Real Rape -- 39. Clarence Thomas, Patriarchal Discourse, and Public/Private Spheres -- Pt. 12. Equality and the Millennium: The Crisis in Education Has Consequences for the "Isms" -- 40. Downsizing Higher Education: Confronting the New Realities of the High-Tech Information Age Global Economy -- Epilogue -- Permissions -- Index -- About the Editor.

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