Everyday Inequalities

Jodi O'Brien is Associate Professor of Sociology at Seattle University. She co-edited with Peter Kollock The Production of Reality, 2nd edition, (1997). She writes and lectures in the area of cultural politics, marginal identities and communities.Judith A. Howard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She lectures and researches in the area of gender and the intersections of gender dynamics with race, class and sexuality. She is currently co-editing SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

List of Contributors vii
Foreword xi
Mary Romero
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: Differences and Inequalities 1
Jodi O'Brien
Part I. Everyday Interaction 41
Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television 43
Jocelyn A. Hollander
"I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement 73
Linda Van Leuven
Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers 97
Carl Edward Pate
"Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds 131
Lori Kendall
Part II. Managing Self/Society Conflicts 155
Frederick the Great or Frederick's of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military 157
Melissa S. Herbert
Sisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination 189
Thomas J. Gerschick
Class Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life 213
Martha L. Shockey
Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain 237
France Winddance Twine
Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women 253
Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso
Part III. Institutional Dynamics 281
The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography 283
Shelley Kowalski
Reproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts 309
Jennifer L. Eichstedt
The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement 337
Douglas Hartmann
Belongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market 361
Anthony J. Freitas
Afterthoughts 385
Judith A. Howard
Index 397

This collection of essays aims to reveal the everyday practice of cultural hierarchies. The essays demonstrate social inequality in a variety of settings through a series of case studies on gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and their complex intersections.