
Gender, Race, and Class
An Overview
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 21. December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-631-22035-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Gender, Race, and Class" is a critical overview of these three well-known dimensions of the social world. The study of gender, race and class as a combined topic has evolved over the years, and this concise, accessible volume shows why the subject continues to resonate both in and outside the academy. This book examines recent scholarship to how one's gender, with the added dimension of race and class, can impact one's experiences in society; probes deeper under the surface of different biases to see whether common elements of discrimination may also be at work; and, includes a conceptual 'vocabulary' that describes how gender, race and class interrelate.
Reviews / Votes
"The author clearly lays out major ideas and conflicts regarding these variables using both historical and contemporary thinkers, including de Beauvoir, Marx, Weber, Bourdieu, and W. J. Wilson ... Amongt the book's strengths, complex ideas are explained clearly without oversimplification, and numerous examples make the material understandable and relevant ... Highly Recommended." Choice<!--end--> "Chancer and Watkins provide a textbook which explores the connections between these characteristics and demonstrates their importance to sociology." Sage Race Relations AbstractsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-22035-0 (9780631220350)
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Persons
Lynn S. Chancer is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham University. She is the author of Sadomasochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness (1992) and High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes (2005). Beverly Xaviera Watkins is Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health at Columbia University.
Content
Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Why Gender, Race, and Class?. 2. Gender Defined and Refined. 3. Complexifying Race: a Multi-Dimensional Approach. 4. Class Matters. 5. Concluding Thoughts. Notes. Bibliography. Index