Class Questions: Feminist Answers - Rilegato

Acker, Joan

 
9780742546240: Class Questions: Feminist Answers
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0742546241 ISBN 13: 9780742546240
Casa editrice: Altamira Pr, 2005

Sinossi

Class is a particularly troublesome issue in the United States and other rich capitalist societies. In this feminist analysis of class, noted sociologist Joan Acker examines and assesses feminist attempts to include white women and people of color in discussions of class. She argues that class processes are shaped through gender, race, and other forms of domination and inequality. Class Questions: Feminist Answers outlines a theory of class as a set of gendered and racialized processes in which people have unequal control over and access to the necessities of life-processes including production, distribution, and paid and unpaid labor. Historically, gender and race-based inequalities were integral to capitalism and they are still fundamental aspects of the class system. Acker argues that capitalist organizations create gendered and racialized class inequalities and outlines a conceptual scheme for analyzing 'inequality regimes' in organizations. Finally, the book examines contemporary changes in work and employment and in economic/political processes, including current events like deregulation, downsizing, and off-shoring, that increase inequalities and alter racialized and gendered class relations. This book will appeal to readers interested in a feminist discussion of class as a racialized and gendered process intimately tied to the capitalist economic system.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Joan Acker is professor emerita of the department of sociology at the University of Oregon and recipient of the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and Jessie Bernard Award.

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Editore
Altamira Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2005
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0742546241
ISBN 13 
9780742546240
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
219
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780742546301: Class Questions: Feminist Answers (The Gender Lens Series)

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0742546306 ISBN 13:  9780742546301
Casa editrice: AltaMira Press, 2005
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