Understanding inequality : the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, and gender /
edited by Barbara Arrighi.
- xxii, 369 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Helpful Conceptual Tools -- Mysterious Power of Social Structures -- "They" Are All the Same, but Each Member of My Group Is Unique -- Embedded Ideology: Racism/Ethnocentrism and Sexism -- Black Women and Feminism -- Divining Our Racial Themes -- Cowboys and Arabs -- What's in a Name: Confessions of a Mafia Princess -- The Other Wears Many Faces -- Diversity and Its Discontents -- Coping with the Alienation of White Male Students -- The Second Sex -- Structured Inequality - The Invisible Iron Cage of Class -- Masculinities and Athletic Careers -- The Double-Bind of the "Working-Class" Feminist Academic: The Success of Failure or the Failure of Success? -- (In)Secure Times: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late Twentieth Century -- Structured Inequality - Race/Ethnicity -- Are Men Marginal to the Family? Insights from Chicago's Inner City -- Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement -- Near Detroit, a Familiar Sting in Being a Black Driver -- America's Iron Curtain: The Border Patrol State -- The Heartland's Raw Deal: How Meatpacking Is Creating a New Immigrant Underclass -- Structured Inequality - Acquiring Gender -- Bodies the Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" -- Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology -- Towards Safer Societies: Punishment, Masculinities, and Violence Against Women -- Tomboys Yes, Janegirls Never -- Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation and Female Behavior -- 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 -- Women in the Power Elite -- Women above the Glass Ceiling: Perceptions on Corporate Mobility and Strategies for Success -- What Do Men Want? -- Women's Equality: Progress and Resistance -- Women against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1880-1920 -- Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media -- Mating, Marriage, and the Marketplace: A Survey of College Students' Attitudes and Expectations -- Aging: Devalued Women and Men -- Jane Fonda, Barbara Bush and Other Aging Bodies: Femininity and the Limits of Resistance -- The Aging Woman in Popular Film: Underrepresented, Unattractive, Unfriendly, and Unintelligent -- Older Men as Invisible Men in Contemporary Society -- The Price of Deviance -- The Unruly Women: Gender and the Genres of Laughter -- Too Old, Too Ugly, and Not Deferential to Men -- When an Anchor's Face Is Not Her Fortune -- Black Man with a Nose Job: How We Defend Ethnic Beauty in America -- Patriarchy and Its Consequences -- The Subjection of Women -- Real Rape -- Clarence Thomas, Patriarchal Discourse, and Public/Private Spheres -- 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 -- Epilogue -- Permissions -- Index -- About the Editor. Pt. 1. 1. 2. Pt. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. 3. 7. 8. 9. Pt. 4. 10. 11. 12. Pt. 5. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Pt. 6. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Pt. 7. 23. 24. 25. 26. Pt. 8. 27. 28. 29. Pt. 9. 30. 31. 32. Pt. 10. 33. 34. 35. 36. Pt. 11. 37. 38. 39. Pt. 12. 40.
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Equality--United States Minorities--Social conditions--United States Social classes--United States Sex role--United States