Research Catalog

Title

Color, class & country : experiences of gender / edited by Gay Young & Bette J. Dickerson.

Publication

London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Young, Gay.
• Dickerson, Bette, 1951-

Description

252 p.; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

Color, class, and country.

Subjects

• Women > Social conditions
• Ethnic groups
• Feminism
• Race
• Social classes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Gendered reproduction of race-ethnicity and social class. "Becoming somebody" : aspirations, opportunities, and womanhood / Wendy Luttrell -- Chicanos in white collar occupations : work and the gendered construction of race-ethnicity / Denise A. Segura -- Urban women's work in three social strata : the informal economy of social networks and social capital / Larissa Lomnitz -- Gender and challenges to the construction of social class and race-ethnicity. "I'm not your maid. I am the housekeeper" : the restructuring of housework and work relationships in domestic service / Mary Romero -- Fighting sexual harassment : a collective labour obligation / Stan Gray -- Ethnic identity and feminism : views from leaders of African American women's associations / Bette J. Dickerson -- Race, class, gender and US state welfare policy : the nexus of inequality for African American families / Rose Brewer.
• (Cont.) Reproduction of and challenges to gender relations : cases and comparisons at the national level. Gender inequality around the world : comparing fifteen nations in five world regions / Lucia Fort, Mona Danner, and Gay Young -- The state, gender policy, and social change : an analysis from Turkey / Nüket Kardam -- Work intensity and time use : what do women do when there aren't enough hours in a day? / Maria Sagrario Floro -- Gender stratification and vulnerability in Uganda / Christine Obbo -- Challenges to white western middle class gender analysis and agendas. "Lifting as we climb" : how scholarship by and about women of color has shaped my life as a white feminist / Kathryn B. Ward -- The place of the WID discourse in global feminist analysis : the potential for a "reverse flow" / Vidyamali Samarasinghe -- Difference, diversity, and divisions in an agenda for the women's movement / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

Call Number

JFD 95-5770

ISBN

• 185649179X
• 9781856491792
• 1856491803 (pbk.)
• 9781856491808 (pbk.)
• 185649179X [Hb]
• 1856491803 [pbk.]

LCCN

94012648

OCLC

30547625

Title

Color, class & country : experiences of gender / edited by Gay Young & Bette J. Dickerson.

Imprint

London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Young, Gay.

Dickerson, Bette, 1951-

Added Title

Color, class, and country.

Research Call Number

JFD 95-5770