| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 377 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mysterious power of social structures / Charles Lemert -- "They" are all the same, but each member of my group is unique / Stephen Worchel -- Black women and feminism / Bell Hooks -- Divining our racial themes / Derrick Bell -- Size 6 : the western women's harem / Fatema Mernissi -- Diversity and its discontents / Arturo Madrid -- Coping with the alienation of white male students / Billie Wright Dziech -- The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- The double-bind of the "working-class" feminist academic / Diane Reay -- (In) secure times : constructing white working-class masculinities in the late twentieth century / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Judi Addelston, and Julia Marusza -- A black women took my job / Michael Kimmel -- Are men marginal to the family? insights from Chicago's inner city / Haya Stier and Marta Tienda -- Policing the ghetto underclass : the politics of law and law enforcement / William J. Chamblis -- America's iron curtain : the border patrol state / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The heartland's raw deal : how meatpacking is creating a new immigrant underclass / Marc Cooper -- Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex" / Judith Butler -- Believing is seeing : biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Toward safer societies : punishment, masculinities, and violence against women / Laureen Snider -- Tomboys yes, janegirls never / Barbara A. Arrighi -- Hormonal hurricanes : menstruation and female behavior / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- 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 / Deborah Tannen -- Women in the power elite / Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff -- Women above the glass ceiling : perceptions on corporate mobility and strategies for success / Sally Ann Davies-Netzley -- Invisible women / Katha Pollitt -- Women against women : American antisuffragism, 1880-1920 / Jane Jerome Camhi -- Where the girls are : growing up female with the mass media / Susan J. Douglas -- Mating, marriage, and the marketplace : a survey of college students' attitudes and expectations / Barbara A. Arrighi -- The unruly woman : gender and the genres of laughter / Kathleen Rowe -- Black man with a nose job : how we defend ethnic beauty in America / Lawrence Otis Graham -- Hitting bottom : homelessness, poverty, and masculinity / Timothy Nonn -- Older men as invisible men in contemporary society / Edward H. Thompson -- The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill -- Real rape / Susan Estrich -- Clarence Thomas, patriarchal discourse, and public/private spheres / Mary F. Rogers -- How Harvard helped curb Title IX's role in admitting women / Karen Blumenthal -- Downsizing higher education : confronting the new realities of the high-tech information age global economy / Walda Katz-Fishman. |
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Equality -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Social classes -- United States.
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Sex role -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Arrighi, Barbara A.
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| ISBN |
9780742546783 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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9780742546790 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0742546780 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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0742546799 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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