SOC265H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intersectionality, Jeff Lorber
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The social construction and institutionalization of gender and race. pgs. 3-35 in revisioning gender, edited by ferree, m. m. , lorber, j. , and hess, b. b. In this article, the author glenn is focusing on the intersectionality between gender and race. According to the author, the concept of gender provides an outline for looking at history, culture and situational variability in relations to the difference between men and women and the connection between power and political status. He believes that the integrated framework of race and gender she three feature, which are: rationality, structure and representation, and power. His main argument is that even though in the american history women"s rights have been suppressed, they have still been in fairly better standing than black women. Black women had been a part of the labour force long before white middle class women.
