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The essays in this collection explore the multifaceted nature of social location and consider how gender, class, race, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and religion interact to create nuanced layers of privilege and oppression. The essays guide students to a deep understanding of the dynamics of diversity and stratification, advantage, and power.

Product Details

PublisherRoutledge
Publish DateAugust 02, 2016
Pages332
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780813350035
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches | 1.0 pounds

About the Author

Michael S. Kimmel is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University where he directs the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities. His books include Men's Lives and Manhood: A Cultural History. He is the founder and editor of Men and Masculinities, the field's premier scholarly journal.

Abby L. Ferber is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her books include White Man Falling: Race, Gender, and White Supremacy, and The New Basics: Sex, Gender and Sexuality. She is also co-organizer of the national White Privilege Conference and the Knapsack Institute, and editor of the journal, Understanding and Dismantling Privilege.

Reviews

Praise for the last edition:

This is a superb collection of work at the vanguard of a resurgent interest in how privilege works across a wide range of human experience. Kimmel and Ferber have skillfully knit together a coherent picture of otherwise unexamined and under-theorized connections in a dauntingly vast and fragmented literature. Troy Duster, New York University

This excellent anthology forcefully illustrates how bigotry based on ethnic, racial, gender, and sexual stereotyping confines and blights the lives of those deemed inferior. I'd like to see this book assigned in every college campus in the country. Marti Duberman, City University of New York

Finally a book on how the other half (or less) lives, and how their status, power and way of life is related to the debasing and suffering of others. This volume will start to bring some semblance of balance to the study of inequality and injustice in the United States. Pedro Noguera, Harvard University

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