Understanding Inequality

742 Pages·2001·1.84 MB·English

by  Barbara A. Arrighi

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Understanding Inequality : The Intersection
title:
of Race/ethnicity, Class, and Gender
author: Arrighi, Barbara A.
publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
isbn10 | asin: 0847699145
print isbn13: 9780847699148
ebook isbn13: 9780585385174
language: English
Equality--United States, United States--
Social conditions, Minorities--United
subject
States--Social conditions, Social classes--
United States, Sex role--United States.
publication date: 2001
lcc: HN90.S6U53 2001eb
ddc: 305/.0973
Equality--United States, United States--
Social conditions, Minorities--United
subject:
States--Social conditions, Social classes--
United States, Sex role--United States.
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Understanding Inequality
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Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Edited by
Barbara A. Arrighi
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intersection of race/ethnicity, class, and gender / edited by
Barbara A. Arrighi
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8476-9914-5 — ISBN 0-8476-9915-3 (pbk.)
1. Equality—United States. 2. United States—Social
conditions. 3. Minorities—
United States—Social conditions. 4. Social classes—United States.
5. Sex role—United States. I. Arrighi, Barbara A.
HN90.S6 U53 2001
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Part One Helpful Conceptual Tools
1Mysterious Power of Social Structures 3
Charles Lemert
2“They” Are All the Same, but Each Member of My Group Is 12
Unique
Stephen Worchel
Part Two Embedded Ideology: Racism/Ethnocentrism and Sexism
3Black Women and Feminism 19
bell hooks
4Divining Our Racial Themes 25
Derrick Bell
5Cowboys and Arabs 33
Laura Goodstein
6What’s in a Name: Confessions of a Mafia Princess 36
Erica-Lynn Huberty (formerly Gambino)
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Part Three The Other Wears Many Faces
7Diversity and Its Discontents
Arturo Madrid 43
8Coping with the Alienation of White Male Students
Billie Wright Dziech 51
9The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir 56
Part Four Structured Inequality—The Invisible Iron Cage of Class
Masculinities and Athletic Careers
10Michael Messner 67
The Double-Bind of the “Working-Class” Feminist Academic:
11The Success of Failure or the Failure of Success? 76
Diane Reay
(In)Secure Times: Constructing White Working-Class
12Masculinities in the Late Twentieth Century 83
Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Judi Addelston, and Julia Marusza
Part Five Structured Inequality—Race/Ethnicity
Are Men Marginal To The Family? Insights from Chicago’s Inner
13City 93
Haya Stier and Marta Tienda
Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law
14Enforcement 104
William J. Chambliss
Near Detroit, a Familiar Sting in Being a Black Driver
15Robyn Meredith 113
America’s Iron Curtain: The Border Patrol State
16Leslie Marmon Silko 116
The Heartland’s Raw Deal: How Meatpacking Is Creating a New
17Immigrant Underclass 122
Marc Cooper
Part Six Structured Inequality—Acquiring Gender
Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex’’
18Judith Butler 129
Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology
19Judith Lorber 137
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Towards Safer Societies: Punishment, Masculinities, and
20Violence Against Women 145
Laureen Snider
Tomboys Yes, Janegirls Never
21Barbara A. Arrighi 156
Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation and Female Behavior
22Anne Fausto-Sterling 161
Part Seven Corporate Gatekeeping: Fitting In
Talking from 9 to 5: How Women’s and Men’s Conversational
23Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets 173
Done at Work
Deborah Tannen
Women in the Power Elite
24Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff 182
Women above the Glass Ceiling: Perceptions on Corporate
25Mobility and Strategies for Success 189
Sally Ann Davies-Netzley
What Do Men Want?
26Michael S. Kimmel 198
Part Eight Women’s Equality: Progress and Resistance
Women against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1880–1920
27Jane Jerome Camhi 207
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
28Susan J. Douglas 221
Mating, Marriage, and the Marketplace: A Survey of College
29Students’ Attitudes and Expectations 232
Barbara A. Arrighi
Part Nine Aging: Devalued Women and Men
Jane Fonda, Barbara Bush and Other Aging Bodies: Femininity
30and the Limits of Resistance 243
Myra Dinnerstein and Rose Weitz
The Aging Woman in Popular Film: Underrepresented,
31Unattractive, Unfriendly, and Unintelligent 254
Doris G. Bazzini, William D. McIntosh, Stephen M. Smith,
Sabrina Cook, and Caleigh Harris