ISBN:
9780415915502
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (249 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium
DDC:
305.42/0973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 disc
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Content; 1. Introduction: Living with Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium; Part I Identity as a Gendered Space: Dialectical Linkages; 2. Growing Up In/Between the Lines; 3. Everyday [Hetero]sexism: Strategies of Resistance and Lesbian Couples; 4. Sexual Harassment from the Perspective of Asian-American Women; 5. Tuna Memos and Pissing Contests: Doing Gender and Male Dominance on the Internet; Part II The Body as a Gendered Space: Dialectical Linkages; 6. Autoethnography on Memory: Disclosure and Silence
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Wife Abuse and Family Idealizations: The Violent Regulation of Family Regimes8. Discursive Constraint in the Narrated Identities of Childhood Sex Abuse Survivors; 9. Defining the Situation: Sexual Harassment or Everyday Rudeness?; Part III The Political/Economic Arena as a Gendered Space: Dialectical Linkages; 10. Black Women, Sexism, and Racism: Experiencing Double Jeopardy; 11. Higher Education as Gendered Space: Asian-American Women and Everyday Inequities; 12. The Gendered Spaces in Ethnopolitical Life: Social Identities and Political Activism among Chicanos
Description / Table of Contents:
13. Which ""We"" Are We? The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives14 Sexual Harassment Protection for Whom? The Case of Women in Part-Time, Temporary, and Independent Contractor Employment; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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