A surprising and innovative look at class that proposes new
approaches to this important topic While references to gender,
race, and class are everywhere in social theory, class has not
received the kind of theoretical and empirical attention accorded
to gender and race. A welcome and much-needed corrective, this book
offers a novel theoretical approach to class and an active practice
of class analysis. The authors offer new and compelling ways to
look at class through examinations of such topics as sex work, the
experiences of African American women as domestic laborers, and
blue- and white-collar workers. Their work acknowledges that
individuals may participate in various class relations at one
moment or over time and that class identities are multiple and
changing, interacting with other aspects of identity in contingent
and unpredictable ways. The essays in the book focus on class
difference, class transformation and change, and on the
intersection of class, race, gender, sexuality, and other
dimensions of identity. They find class in seemingly unlikely
places-in households, parent-child relationships, and
self-employment-and locate class politics on the interpersonal
level as well as at the level of enterprises, communities, and
nations. Taken together, they will prompt a rethinking of class and
class subjectivity that will expand social theory. Contributors:
Enid Arvidson, U of Texas, Arlington; Jenny Cameron, Monash U,
Australia; Harriet Fraad; Janet Hotch; Susan Jahoda, U of
Massachusetts, Amherst; Amitava Kumar, U of Florida; Cecilia Marie
Rio; Jacquelyn Southern; Marjolein van der Veen.
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