TY - BOOK AU - Arrighi,Barbara A. TI - Understanding inequality: the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, and gender SN - 0847699153 AV - HN90.S6 U53 2001 U1 - 305.0973 PY - 2001///] CY - Lanham PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Equality KW - United States KW - Minorities KW - Social conditions KW - Social classes KW - Sex role N1 - 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 ER -