Full Description
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.
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;
