DOING DIFFERENCE

1995/02/01 by Candace West, Sarah Fenstermaker · 1,310 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Class (philosophy) #Epistemology #Gender Diversity and Inequality #Gender studies #Inequality #Mathematics #Perspective (graphical) #Political science #Psychology #Race (biology) #Social and Cultural Dynamics #Social class #Social inequality #Social psychology #Sociology #Work-Family Balance Challenges

paper · doi:10.1177/089124395009001002

published in Gender & Society 9(1), 8-37 (SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

In this article, we advance a new understanding of “difference” as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social inequality.

Citations

• Dilemmas and Contradictions of Status
• From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor
• Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression
• From Sex Roles to Gendered Institutions
• Doing Gender
• Theorising Gender

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