Privilege: A Reader - Softcover

Kimmel, Michael S.; Ferber, Abby L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813348714 ISBN 13: 9780813348711

Publisher: Westview Press, 2013

Synopsis

Privilege is about more than being white, wealthy, and male—as Michael Kimmel, Abby Ferber, and a wide range of contributors make clear in this innovative and timely anthology. In an era when diversity” is too often shorthand for of color” and/or female,” the personal and analytical 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 individual essays are powerfully thought-provoking; taken together, they help guide students to a deep understanding of the dynamics of diversity and stratification, advantage and power.

The third edition features ten new or newly-recast essays which will help students understand the intersectional nature of privilege and oppression. Enhanced pedagogy (including new discussion questions and personal connections” activities at the conclusion of each section) encourages students to examine their own assumptions, beliefs, values, practices, and social locations—without becoming overwhelmed.

About this title

About the Author

Michael S. Kimmel is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook.  The author or editor of more than twenty volumes, his books include The Guy's Guide to Feminism (2011), Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2008), Men's Lives (9th edition, 2013), and Manhood in America: A Cultural History (3rd edition, 2011). He is also founder and editor of Men and Masculinities, the field's premier scholarly journal.

Abby L. Ferber is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her many authored, co-authored, and edited books include White Man Falling: Race, Gender, and White Supremacy (1998), Hate Crime in America: What Do We Know? (2000) and The New Basics: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (2008). She is also co-organizer of the national White Privilege Conference and the Knapsack Institute.

Review

"The diverse voices found in this book would add a unique and thought-provoking perspective to any undergraduate course examining the many aspects of oppression."
—MultiCultural Review

"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 high school and college campus in the country."
—Martin Duberman, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, CUNY

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0813348714
• ISBN 13: 9780813348711
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 304