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The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

ISBN: 9780072997569 | 0072997567
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 8/4/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
This anthology examines the social construction of race, class, gender, and sexuality and the institutional bases for these relations. While other texts discuss various forms of stratification and the impact of these on members of marginalized groups, Ore provides a thorough discussion of how such systems of stratification are formed and perpetuated and how forms of stratification are interconnected. The anthology supplies sufficient pedagogical tools to aid the student in understanding how the material relates to her/his own life and how her/his own attitudes, actions, and perspectives may serve to perpetuate a stratified system.
Prefacexiii
PART I: CONSTRUCTING DIFFERENCES1(198)
Examining what categories are constructed, how this is done, and why such categories of difference are constructed.
Race an... MORE
19(57)
1. Racial Formations
19(10)
Michael Omi and Howard Winant
2. Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?
29(13)
Mary C. Waters
3. "They Are Absolutely Obsessed with Us": Anti-Arab Bias in American Discourse and Policy
42(15)
Hussein Ibish
4. How Did Jews Become White Folks?
57(19)
Karen Brodkin
Social Class
76(36)
5. Race, Wealth, and Equality
76(13)
Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
6. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible
89(9)
Gregory Mantsios
7. Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap
98(7)
Meizhu Lui
8. Getting Corporations off the Public Dole
105(7)
Janice Shields
Sex and Gender
112(39)
9. The Social Construction of Gender
112(8)
Judith Lorber
10. The Five Sexes, Revisited
120(8)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
11. The Transgender Paradigm Shift toward Free Expression
128(5)
Holly Boswell
12. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
133(18)
Michael S. Kimmel
Sexuality
151(48)
13. The Invention of Heterosexuality
151(13)
Jonathan Ned Katz
14. The Social Construction of Sexuality
164(5)
Ruth Hubbard
15. Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Sexual Landscape
169(18)
Paula C. Rust
16. Naming All the Parts
187(37)
Kate Bornstein
PART II: MAINTAINING INEQUALITIES: SYSTEMS OPPRESSION AND PRIVILEGE199(361)
Examining what elements of social structure work to maintain systems of stratification based on constructions of difference.
Social Institutions: Family
224(66)
17. Our Mother's Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families
224(21)
Bonnie Thornton Dill
18. Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity
245(10)
Lillian B. Rubin
19. Stability and Change in Chicano Men's Family Lives
255(22)
Scott Coltrane
20. Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here
277(13)
Judith Stacey
Social Institutions: Education
290(39)
21. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
290(7)
Jonathan Kozol
22. Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula in America's Elite Boarding Schools
297(11)
Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell
23. Civilize Them with a Stick
308(8)
Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
24. Missing in Interaction
316(13)
Myra Sadker and David Sadker
Social Institutions: Work and Economy
329(38)
25. Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods
329(11)
William J. Wilson
26. "We'd Love to Hire Them, But...": The Meaning of Race for Employers
340(10)
Joleen Kirschenman and Kathryn M. Neckerman
27. The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions
350(12)
Christine L. Williams
28. Cause of Death: Inequality
362(5)
Alejandro Reuss
Social Institutions: The State and Public Policy
367(46)
29. Violating Women: Rights Abuses in the Welfare Police State
367(13)
Gwendolyn Mink
30. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System
380(9)
David Cole
31. The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders
389(13)
Barbara Reskin
32. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the "White" Problem in American Studies
402(11)
George Lipsitz
Social Institutions: Media
413(60)
33. Five Decades and Three Hundred Sitcoms about Class and Gender
413(19)
Richard Butsch
34. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment
432(14)
S. Robert Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson
35. Changing Gay and Lesbian Images in the Media
446(12)
Peter M. Nardi
36. The "F" Word: How the Media Frame Feminism
458(15)
Debra Baker Beck
Language and Culture
473(42)
37. Racism in the English Language
473(11)
Robert B. Moore
38. Self, Identity, and the Naming Question: Reflections on the Language of Disability
484(13)
Irving Kenneth Zola
39. How to Tame a Wild Tongue
497(10)
Gloria Anzaldúa
40. The Dark Side of Sports Symbols
507(8)
Stanley D. Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn
Violence and Social Control
515(45)
41. Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography
515(4)
Helen Zia
42. Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?
519(14)
A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade
43. The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men's Violence
533(17)
Michael Kaufman
44. Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism
550(13)
Suzanne Pharr
PART III: EXPERIENCING DIFFERENCE AND INEQUALITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE560(69)
Examining the impact of constructions of difference and maintaining inequalities on members of society.
45. Making Systems of Privilege Visible
563(9)
Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis
46. "Yes, I Follow Islam, But I'm Not a Terrorist"
"570
Nada El Sawy
47. A Dozen Demons
572(9)
Ellis Cose
48. The Story of My Body
581(9)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
49. "Gee, You Don't Seem Like an Indian from the Reservation"
590(7)
Barbara Cameron
50. On Being Blackanese
597(3)
Mitzi Uehara-Carter
51. Nickel-and-Dimed On (Not) Getting by in America
600(14)
Barbara Ehrenreich
52. I Am Your Welfare Reform
614(2)
Annie Downey
53. Learning to Fight
616(5)
Geoffrey Canada
54. "Why People Think I'm a Boy"
621(3)
Naomi
55. Bisexuality, Feminism, Men and Me
624(5)
Robyn Ochs
PART IV: RESISTANCE AND SOCIAL CHANGE629
Examining how people working within individual and institutional contexts transform difference from a system of inequality to a system of liberation.
56. Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection
641(15)
Patricia Hill Collins
57. Cultural Resistance: Reconstructing Our Own Images
656(10)
Yen Le Espiritu
58. Borders and Bridges: Building New Directions for the Women's Movement
666(26)
Janet L. Finn
59. Seeing More Than Black and White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides
692(8)
Elizabeth Martinez
60. Dismantling Noah's Ark: Gender and Equality
700(14)
Judith Lorber
61. Fighting Frankenfoods: Activists Sow Seeds of Discontent
714
Heather Ryan

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