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Everyday Inequalities
Critical Inquiries
Jodi O'Brien (Edited by), O′Brien (Author), Judith Howard (Edited by)
9781577181224, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 21 August 1998
432 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.617 kg
"O'Brien and Howard have brought together an engaging and lively collection of articles that demonstrate the various ways that people create, re-create, and sometimes challenge social inequalities in our everyday interactions. This collection challenges the current simplistic tendency to see the 'doing of difference' as mere racial, gender, social class, or sexual 'performance'; Instead, the authors in Everyday Inequalities creatively illuminate various situations - in media, workplaces, the arts, or the street-in which people are actively negotiating their identities and their positions within socially-structured contexts of inequality." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California
Thirteen newly published articles on case studies performed by sociologists demonstrating the everyday interactions that reinforce dominance and resistance in modern society.
List of Contributors vii Foreword xi Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: Differences and Inequalities 1 Part I. Everyday Interaction 41 Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television 43 "I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement 73 Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers 97 "Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds 131 Part II. Managing Self/Society Conflicts 155 Frederick the Great or Frederick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military 157 Sisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination 189 Class Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life 213 Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain 237 Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women 253 Part III. Institutional Dynamics 281 The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography 283 Reproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts 309 The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement 337 Belongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market 361 Afterthoughts 385 Index 397
Mary Romero
Jodi O’Brien
Jocelyn A. Hollander
Linda Van Leuven
Carl Edward Pate
Lori Kendall
Melissa S. Herbert
Thomas J. Gerschick
Martha L. Shockey
France Winddance Twine
Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso
Shelley Kowalski
Jennifer L. Eichstedt
Douglas Hartmann
Anthony J. Freitas
Judith A. Howard
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
