The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation - Softcover

Rosenblum, Karen; Travis, Toni-Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072487828 ISBN 13: 9780072487824

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Synopsis

The Meaning of Difference, is a combined text-reader about the social construction of difference as that operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. It is premised on the conviction that similar processes are operating when we see difference of color, gender, class, and sexuality and that these processes likely also apply to other master statuses such as disability, ethnicity, or national-origin. Three framework essays provide the conceptual structure for the book. Each framework essay is followed by a set of readings that illustrate the concepts developed in the essays. Readings have been selected because they offer analyses that are generalizable to a variety of statuses.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Now includes more readings, twenty-seven of which are new to this edition, including readings on Native Americans, readings on disability, and increased attention to transgendered people.
Increased pedagogy, including a glossary at the end of each framework essay, makes the material more accessible to students.
A new Instructor's Manual offers suggestions for teaching this intrinsically difficult material.
The text-reader is divided into three parts, (1) Constructing Categories of Difference; (2) Experiencing Difference; and (3) The Meaning of Difference, each part opening with a Framework Essay in which the authors provide a conceptual framework for analyzing the subsequent readings.
Provides an integrated analysis of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation, with equal attention given to each topic, and provides an analysis that can be extended to other master statuses.
Boxed inserts throughout the book offer first-person accounts from 'real' people, many of them students themselves, to make the material more meaningful for students.
Includes a chapter devoted to an accessible discussion of the key court cases affecting the rights of race, sex, social class, sexual orientation, and language minorities, identifying key issues in each court case to maximize students' understanding.

About the Author:

Karen E. Rosenblum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Vice President for University Life at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is a former Director of Womens Studies and the Womens Studies Research and Resource Center and a faculty member in Cultural Studies. Professor Rosenblum received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her areas of research and teaching include sex and gender, language, and deviance.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072487828
• ISBN 13: 9780072487824
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 560