Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium / Edition 1

by Carol Rambo Ronai, Barbara A. Zsembik, Joe R. Feagin

Overview

This collection features new and original research on the range of sexism still faced every day by women in US society. It documents oppression across ethnic, racial, class, and sexual orientation groups in a wide range of gendered spaces, including the home, the workplace, unions, educational institutions, and the Internet. Exploring the way these different but related systems of oppression interact, the editors come to view sexism not as a static thing, but as part of a "dialectic of domination" in which women are simultaneously oppressed and capable of oppressing others through their discourse and practice. With its broad range of approaches, its focus on discourse and experience in gendered spaces, and its debunking of the personal and societal fictions of gender, this book goes a long way toward explaining why sexism is still so pervasive in everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415915519
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/19/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

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

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