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Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality A Conceptual Framework

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ISBN-10: 019538024X

ISBN-13: 9780195380248

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Lynn Weber

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Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: Text and Cases, Second Edition, is the only text that develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of intersectionality. Weber argues that these social systems are historically and geographically contextual power relationships that are simultaneously expressed and experienced at both the macro level of social institutions and the micro level of individual lives and small groups. This is also the only text that teaches students how to apply the theory to their own analyses. Originally published in its first edition as two separate books, the second edition integrates the main text and the case studies into one volume. As in the previous…    
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List price: $79.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Lynn Weber, Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, has for thirty years been a leader in developing the field of intersectionality—examining the nexus between race, class, gender, and other dimensions of social inequality. Her current work focuses on revealing inequalities in the process of recovery from disaster and in health outcomes.

Introduction
Laying The Foundation
Defining Contested Concepts
A Historical Timeline of Indicators of Oppression
A Conceptual Framework--Five Themes
The Story of Margaret Welch: A Case Study
Themes: Historically and Geographically Contextual, Socially Constructed, Power Relations
Themes: Macro and Micro Levels, Simultaneous Expression
A Race, Class, Gender, And Sexuality Analysis Of Education
A Case Study: Theo Wilson and Lynn Johnson
Education and the American Dream
Themes: Historically and Geographically Contextual, Socially Constructed
Themes: Macro and Micro Level Power Relations, Simultaneously Expressed
Envisioning Social Justice
Case Studies: Applying The Framework
Steinem and Walker: Clinton and Obama, Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker
The Valenzuela Family, Leo R. Chavez
""It's Like We Never Been Born"": Rebirth on the Mississippi Gulf Coast After Hurricane Katrina, Lynn Weber and Sharon Hanshaw
Getting Off On Feminism, Jason Schultz
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Appendix: Historical Timeline References
References
Index