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Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries

Jodi O'Brien (Editor), Judith Howard (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-57718-121-7
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432 pages
October 1998, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors.

Foreword (Mary Romero).

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Differences and Inequalities (Jodi O’Brien).

PART I. EVERYDAY INTERACTION.

Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television (Jocelyn A. Hollander).

"I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement (Linda Van Leuven).

Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers (Carl Edward Pate).

"Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds (Lori Kendall).

PART II. MANAGING SELF/SOCIETY CONFLICTS.

Frederick the Great or Frederick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military (Melissa S. Herbert).

Sisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination (Thomas J. Gerschick).

Class Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life (Martha L. Shockey).

Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain (France Winddance Twine).

Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women (Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso).

PART III. INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS.

The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography (Shelley Kowalski).

Reproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts (Jennifer L. Eichstedt).

The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement (Douglas Hartmann).

Belongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market (Anthony J. Freitas).

Afterthoughts (Judith A. Howard).

Index.

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