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

by Arrighi, Barbara A.

• ISBN13: 9780847699155
• ISBN10: 0847699153
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This book brings together essays by some of the most influential writers

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