Print Price: $99.99

Format:
Paperback
336 pp.
8 illustrations, 231 mm x 155 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195380248

Copyright Year:
2010

Imprint: OUP US

Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

Text and Cases, Second Edition

Lynn Weber

The only text that uses a conceptual framework to analyze the interlocking nature of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Understanding Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality provides a formal delineation of the theories underlying intersectional research and a framework for conducting critical analyses of the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality intersect in our lives. This is the only text in the field that presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the interlocking nature of these hierarchical systems and the ways in which they operate in our lives on both macro and micro levels. Originally published as two separate books, the second edition is now one book including both text and cases. The original structure has stayed the same, and Weber continues to use the extended example of education to show students how to conduct a race, class, gender, and sexuality analysis.

Readership : Suitable for courses in Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality/Social Inequality and Introduction to Women's Studies. This book may be used in a variety of other courses and departments, including: Departments of Women's Studies, Communications, American Studies, Sociology, and Political Science, in courses such as Intro to Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Intro to American Studies, Contemporary American Culture, and Gender/Communication. It is also appropriate for use in conjunction with race, class, gender, and sexuality readers, of which there are many.

Reviews

• "Weber is unwavering in her commitment to documenting the intersection of these constructs and she succeeds where others have not. The five themes are invaluable teaching tools and the case studies make for useful discussions in class. The text fills a void in the academic literature. It accomplishes what we, as instructors, all give voice to but are rarely able to achieve--a comprehensive analysis of the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality."
  
  --Melissa Bonstead-Bruns, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• "Exhaustively researched and lucidly written, this book is a model of intersectional scholarship. Weber brings to life the simultaneous workings of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She goes even further by providing students and professors the tools they need to connect systems of power and inequality. For years I have adopted the first edition of this unique and persuasive book. I would not want to teach my structural inequality course without this text."
  
  --Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University
• 9780195430578"The text is very accessible and clearly presented. Students can really learn how to develop a lens for an intersectional analysis. Focusing on education as a realm for exploration for students is great, since my students have little experience with another formal institution."
  
  --Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware
• "I currently use Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in my Introduction to Women's Studies course, and I have used it in my Feminist Theory, Introduction to American Studies, and Contemporary American Culture classes. In each of these courses, the objective is for students to begin analyzing race, class, gender, and sexuality in popular culture, American Literature, and American Institutions.... Lynn Weber's new edition would be the perfect book for my courses. Her plan to integrate the cases into the book is absolutely wonderful. This is a 'must use' text, especially for interdisciplinary courses. I will adopt! By including the cases, I am thoroughly happy! This is a move that I have wanted for years."
  
  --Laurie Kendall, University of Maryland (English and Women's Studies)