The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation - Softcover

Rosenblum, Karen E.; Travis, Toni-Michelle C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072487828 ISBN 13: 9780072487824

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2002

Synopsis

The Meaning of Difference, is a combined text-reader about the social construction of difference as that operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. It is premised on the conviction that similar processes are operating when we see difference of color, gender, class, and sexuality and that these processes likely also apply to other master statuses such as disability, ethnicity, or national-origin. Three framework essays provide the conceptual structure for the book. Each framework essay is followed by a set of readings that illustrate the concepts developed in the essays. Readings have been selected because they offer analyses that are generalizable to a variety of statuses.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen E. Rosenblum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Vice President for University Life at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is a former Director of Women’s Studies and the Women’s Studies Research and Resource Center and a faculty member in Cultural Studies. Professor Rosenblum received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her areas of research and teaching include sex and gender, language, and deviance.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072487828
• ISBN 13: 9780072487824
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 560