Class questions
Subtitle: feminist answers
By: Joan Acker.
Series: The gender lens series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Social classes; Feminist theory; Women -- Social conditions; Minorities -- Social conditions; Capitalism
Description: "Class is a particularly troublesome issue in the United States and other rich capitalist societies. In this feminist analysis of class, noted sociologist Joan Acker examines and assesses feminist attempts to include white women and people of color in discussions of class. She argues that class processes are shaped through gender, race, and other forms of domination and inequality. Class Questions: Feminist Answers outlines a theory of class as a set of gendered and racialized processes in which people have unequal control over and access to the necessities of life - processes including production, distribution, and paid and unpaid labor."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The feminist problem with class; title: Feminists theorizing class - issues and arguments; title: Thinking about gendered and racialized class; title: Is capitalism gendered and racialized?; title: Large organizations and the production of gendered and racialized class; title: Changes in gendered and racialized class; title: Conclusion: Some optimistic proposals.