Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium

ISBN-13: 9780415915502 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 264 str.

Carol Rambo Ronai; Barbara A. Zsembik; Joe R. Feagin

Opis

This collection features research on the range of sexism still faced every day by women. It documents oppression across race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation in a wide range of gendered spaces, including the home, the work place, unions, educational institutions and the Internet.

Recenzje

"This is a very good book... it is a well-written, interesting and very topical book for everyone." -- Dead Trees Review

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Carol Rambo Ronai, Barbara A. Zsembik, Joe R. Feagin; Part I Identity As A Gendered Space; Chapter 2 Growing Up In/Between the Lines, Andreana Clay; Chapter 3 Everyday, HeteroSexism, Christine Michele Robinson; Chapter 4 Sexual Harassment from the Perspective of Asian-American Women, Edith Wen-Chu Chen; Chapter 5 Tuna Memos and Pissing Contests, Kimberly J. Cook, Phoebe M. Stambaugh; Part II The Body as a Gendered Space; Chapter 6 Autoethnography on Memory, tammy ko Robinson; Chapter 7 Wife Abuse and Family Idealizations, Dorothy E Smith; Chapter 8 Discursive Constraint in the Narrated Identities of Childhood Sex Abuse Survivors, Carol Rambo Ronai; Chapter 9 Defining the Situation; Part III The Political/Economic Arena As A Gendered Space; Chapter 10 Black Women, Sexism, and Racism, Yanick St. Jean, Joe R. Feagin; Chapter 11 Higher Education as Gendered Space, Hune Shirley; Chapter 12 The Gendered Spaces in Ethnopolitical Life, Barbara A. Zsembik; Chapter 13 Which “We” are We?, Ellen Smith Barbara; Chapter 14 Sexual Harassment Protection for Whom?, Dula J. Espinosa;

O autorze

Carol Rambo Ronai is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis. Barbara A. Zsembik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida. Joe R. Feagin is Graduate Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida, and author of White Racism: The Basics (Routledge, 1995) and The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities (Routledge, 1996).