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Author Acker, Joan.

Title Class questions : feminist answers / Joan Acker
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
©2006

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Description xiii, 219 pages ; 24 cm
Series The gender lens series
Gender lens.
Gender lens series.
Contents Introduction: The feminist problem with class -- Feminists theorizing class - issues and arguments -- Thinking about gendered and racialized class -- Is capitalism gendered and racialized? -- Large organizations and the production of gendered and racialized class -- Changes in gendered and racialized class -- Conclusion: Some optimistic proposals
Summary "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."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-210) and index
Subject Social classes.
Feminist theory.
Women -- Social conditions.
Minorities -- Social conditions.
Capitalism.
LC no. 2005018246
ISBN 0742546241 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742546306 (paperback: alk. paper)