This anthology helps readers understand issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality at the individual level—by including stories by or about people who have actually experienced discrimination, prejudice, or inequality because of who they were. It then explains the historical, cultural, and institutional roots of inequality, before turning to theoretical explanations, and finally to a section on activism oriented toward social change. For United States citizens working for unity—while celebrating diversity—in the land they call home.

The Dynamics of Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the United States

Politics & Social Sciences

Tewksbury, Richard

Gagné, Patricia

Social Sciences

Pearson

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Dynamics Of Inequality: Race, Class, Gendernd Sexuality In The United States- (Value Pack w/MyLab Search)

Sociology

Resource mobilization theory is used to examine the history of the movement to grant clemency to women jailed for killing or assaulting the men who abused them. Countering the view of some analysts that the battered womens movement has been co-opted, the author steps away from the shelters as the focus of her study and examines the work of activists, social movement communities, informal networks, and national organizations. After drawing upon the movement in Ohio as a precedent-setting case study, she analyzes the events in six other states where large-scale clemencies have been attempted or achieved. The Social Movements Past And Present Series offers thorough analyses of the ideas and actions that have changed the way Americans think and live. Each volume is written by a specialist drawing on the insights and methodologies of history, sociology, and political science.

Battered Women's Justice (Social Movements Past and Present Series)

Twayne Publishers

In Gendered Power in Child Welfare: What's Care Got to Do with It?, Christa Jane Moore and Patricia Gagné argue that the child welfare system in Kentucky and other states is based on masculine values that were institutionalized long before women had the right to vote, hold public office, or have a voice in public law and policy. The authors draw on feminist and organizational theories and base their arguments on primary qualitative data and secondary statistics to demonstrate that, historically and today, the efforts of care workers in the child welfare system are stymied by a highly bureaucratic child welfare system that demands focus on metric outcomes. Throughout the work the authors argue for reforms--more feminized orientations that hearken back to the earliest extensions of community-centered care for those most vulnerable, especially children with protective needs.

Gendered Power in Child Welfare: What’s Care Got to Do with It?

Moore, Christa Jane

Lexington Books

This unique collection of highly readable articles offers a fresh, alternative approach to teaching deviance. Articles were chosen that will pique student interest and stimulate lively class discussion by challenging preconceived notions of deviance and people labeled as "deviant." Benefits of Deviance and Deviants: An Anthology to students and instructors are as follows: * This is not a "typical" deviance anthology. It does not include the classic selections usually found in most readers. Rather, it features less widely known empirical pieces selected on the basis of their compelling descriptions of deviant behavior--both from top journals and from sources outside the mainstream. * The book is organized around themes of behavior rather than theoretical perspectives or concepts. The articles examine drugs, sex, medicine, relationships, sports, work, and deviant subcultures--providing students with a basis for grasping central sociological ideas. * Coverage includes such topics as rape, transgender behavior, and child abuse--as well as a variety of types of deviance that touch closer to home for many students: sports deviance, student drinking, mistreatment of the elderly, stuttering, cheating among college students, and faculty malfeasance. * Brief, thought-provoking introductions are provided for each article, framing the piece in a larger context in terms of conceptual and theoretical issues. These introductions also explain central issues, key concepts, and relationships among topics covered.

Deviance and Deviants: An Anthology

Tewksbury, Richard A.

Roxbury Pub. Co