Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality A Conceptual Framework

by Weber, Lynn

• ISBN13: 9780195380248
• ISBN10: 019538024X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: Text and Cases, Second Edition, is the only text that develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of intersectionality. Weber argues that these social systems are historically and geographically contextual power relationships that are simultaneously expressed and experienced at both the macro level of social institutions and the micro level of individual lives and small groups. This is also the only text that teaches students how to apply the theory to their own analyses. Originally published in its first edition as two separate books, the second edition integrates the main text and the case studies into one volume. As in the previous edition, Weber uses education as an extended example to show students how to conduct a race, class, gender, and sexuality analysis. With completely updated data, this edition adds important new research in sexuality, globalization, and education. It also features new case studies, including one on Hurricane Katrina and another on the 2008 Presidential election. Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: Text and Cases, Second Edition, can be used in a variety of courses: in social inequality, communication, women's and gender studies, ethnic studies, American studies, sociology, political science, human services, and public health.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Laying The Foundation

Defining Contested Concepts

A Historical Timeline of Indicators of Oppression

A Conceptual Framework--Five Themes

The Story of Margaret Welch: A Case Study

Themes: Historically and Geographically Contextual, Socially Constructed, Power Relations

Themes: Macro and Micro Levels, Simultaneous Expression

A Race, Class, Gender, And Sexuality Analysis Of Education

A Case Study: Theo Wilson and Lynn Johnson

Education and the American Dream

Themes: Historically and Geographically Contextual, Socially Constructed

Themes: Macro and Micro Level Power Relations, Simultaneously Expressed

Envisioning Social Justice

Case Studies: Applying The Framework

Steinem and Walker: Clinton and Obama, Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker

The Valenzuela Family, Leo R. Chavez

""It's Like We Never Been Born"": Rebirth on the Mississippi Gulf Coast After Hurricane Katrina, Lynn Weber and Sharon Hanshaw

Getting Off On Feminism, Jason Schultz

Websites

Appendix: Historical Timeline References

References

Index

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