Digesting Race, Class, and Gender [electronic resource] : Sugar as a Metaphor /
Ken, I.author.
How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms conflict or work together? In Digesting Race, Class, and Gender, Ivy Ken likens race, class, and gender to foods - foods that are produced in fields, mixed together in bowls, and digested in our social and institutional bodies. In the field, one food may contaminate another through cross-pollination. In the mixing bowl, each food s original molecular structure changes in the presence of others. And within a meal, the presence of one food may impede or facilitate the digestion of another. At each of these sites, the "foods" of race, class, and gender are involved in dynamic relationships with each other that have implications for the shape - or the taste - of our social order.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Conceptual reorientation -- pt. 2. Using food to identify relationships among race, class, and gender -- pt. 3. Searching for evidence of relationships at specific sites.
How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms conflict or work together? In Digesting Race, Class, and Gender, Ivy Ken likens race, class, and gender to foods - foods that are produced in fields, mixed together in bowls, and digested in our social and institutional bodies. In the field, one food may contaminate another through cross-pollination. In the mixing bowl, each food s original molecular structure changes in the presence of others. And within a meal, the presence of one food may impede or facilitate the digestion of another. At each of these sites, the "foods" of race, class, and gender are involved in dynamic relationships with each other that have implications for the shape - or the taste - of our social order.
Political economy.
Ethnicity.
Sociology.
Political science.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
International Political Economy.
Ethnicity Studies.
Gender Studies.
Political Science.
Sociology, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.