Understanding Inequality Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Helpful Conceptual Tools
1	Mysterious Power of Social Structures	3
2	"They" Are All the Same, but Each Member of My Group Is Unique	12
Pt. 2	Embedded Ideology: Racism/Ethnocentrism and Sexism
3	Black Women and Feminism	19
4	Divining Our Racial Themes	25
5	Cowboys and Arabs	33
6	What's in a Name: Confessions of a Mafia Princess	36
Pt. 3	The Other Wears Many Faces
7	Diversity and Its Discontents	43
8	Coping with the Alienation of White Male Students	51
9	The Second Sex	56
Pt. 4	Structured Inequality - The Invisible Iron Cage of Class
10	Masculinities and Athletic Careers	67
11	The Double-Bind of the "Working-Class" Feminist Academic: The Success of Failure or the Failure of Success?	76
12	(In)Secure Times: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late Twentieth Century	83
Pt. 5	Structured Inequality - Race/Ethnicity
13	Are Men Marginal to the Family? Insights from Chicago's Inner City	93
14	Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement	104
15	Near Detroit, a Familiar Sting in Being a Black Driver	113
16	America's Iron Curtain: The Border Patrol State	116
17	The Heartland's Raw Deal: How Meatpacking Is Creating a New Immigrant Underclass	122
Pt. 6	Structured Inequality - Acquiring Gender
18	Bodies the Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"	129
19	Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology	137
20	Towards Safer Societies: Punishment, Masculinities, and Violence Against Women	145
21	Tomboys Yes, Janegirls Never	156
22	Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation and Female Behavior	161
Pt. 7	Corporate Gatekeeping: Fitting In
23	Talking from 9 to 5: How Women's and Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard. Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work	173
24	Women in the Power Elite	182
25	Women above the Glass Ceiling: Perceptions on Corporate Mobility and Strategies for Success	189
26	What Do Men Want?	198
Pt. 8	Women's Equality: Progress and Resistance
27	Women against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1880-1920	207
28	Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media	221
29	Mating, Marriage, and the Marketplace: A Survey of College Students' Attitudes and Expectations	232
Pt. 9	Aging: Devalued Women and Men
30	Jane Fonda, Barbara Bush and Other Aging Bodies: Femininity and the Limits of Resistance	243
31	The Aging Woman in Popular Film: Underrepresented, Unattractive, Unfriendly, and Unintelligent	254
32	Older Men as Invisible Men in Contemporary Society	261
Pt. 10	The Price of Deviance
33	The Unruly Women: Gender and the Genres of Laughter	271
34	Too Old, Too Ugly, and Not Deferential to Men	286
35	When an Anchor's Face Is Not Her Fortune	291
36	Black Man with a Nose Job: How We Defend Ethnic Beauty in America	293
Pt. 11	Patriarchy and Its Consequences
37	The Subjection of Women	299
38	Real Rape	309
39	Clarence Thomas, Patriarchal Discourse, and Public/Private Spheres	324
Pt. 12	Equality and the Millennium: The Crisis in Education Has Consequences for the "Isms"
40	Downsizing Higher Education: Confronting the New Realities of the High-Tech Information Age Global Economy	339
	Epilogue	351
	Permissions	353
	Index	357
	About the Editor	369