Everyday Inequalities

Thirteen newly published articles on case studies performed by sociologists demonstrating the everyday interactions that reinforce dominance and resistance in modern society. List of Contributors.

Foreword (Mary Romero).

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Differences and Inequalities (Jodi O’Brien).

PART I. EVERYDAY INTERACTION.

Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television (Jocelyn A. Hollander).

"I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement (Linda Van Leuven).

Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers (Carl Edward Pate).

"Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds (Lori Kendall).

PART II. MANAGING SELF/SOCIETY CONFLICTS.

Frederick the Great or Frederick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military (Melissa S. Herbert).

Sisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination (Thomas J. Gerschick).

Class Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life (Martha L. Shockey).

Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain (France Winddance Twine).

Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women (Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso).

PART III. INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS.

The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography (Shelley Kowalski).

Reproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts (Jennifer L. Eichstedt).

The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement (Douglas Hartmann).

Belongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market (Anthony J. Freitas).

Afterthoughts (Judith A. Howard).

Index.

"O'Brien and Howard have brought together an engaging and lively collection of articles that demonstrate the various ways that people create, re-create, and sometimes challenge social inequalities in our everyday interactions. This collection challenges the current simplistic tendency to see the 'doing of difference' as mere racial, gender, social class, or sexual 'performance'; Instead, the authors in Everyday Inequalities creatively illuminate various situations - in media, workplaces, the arts, or the street-in which people are actively negotiating their identities and their positions within socially-structured contexts of inequality." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California Jodi O'Brien is Associate Professor of Sociology at Seattle University. She co-edited with Peter Kollock The Production of Reality, 2nd edition, (1997). She writes and lectures in the area of cultural politics, marginal identities and communities.

Judith A. Howard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She lectures and researches in the area of gender and the intersections of gender dynamics with race, class and sexuality. She is currently co-editing SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

This collection provides, the everyday practice of structural and cultural hierarchies is revealed through empirical case studies by cutting edge sociologists. Everyday Inequalities demonstrates practices of dominance and resistance in a variety of settings through a series of essays on gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and their complex intersections. These essays powerfully reveal how these practices continually reinscribe hierarchies of power and privilege in society.

Containing essays by up-and-coming scholars as well as more established researchers, Everyday Inequalities uses techniques found in cultural studies and empirical methods of sociological inquiry to theorize the everyday practices of social inequalities through grounded demonstrations and analyses.