RACE, CLASS AND GENDER

Race, Class and Gender in the United States

Abstract

The review of the book is done to illustrate the women issues of the repressive nature. The author in the book specifically talks on the perceptive issues occurring on the women's side especially the situations they undergo. It depicts perceptive that exists on a number of issues such the gender, race, and class. Most women are silenced before they can contribute towards anything, therefore, have no voices in any matter. The book shows that the women's situation is drained off meaning and guilt means tripped. The experience under this situation of oppression is that of censure, exposure to chastisement, and deprivation. The requirement for the abused persons is to maintain themselves contented and cheerful most of the time. This signals their tameness and compliance in that situation. The author of the book gives a true picture of the situation women go through to act as a revelation.

Race, Class and Gender in the United States

Introduction

Race, class, and gender are some of the hardest issues to teach and negotiate in the sociological classroom. Rothenberg has made a significant contribution help ease this challenge. She edited an excellent collection of articles on race, class, and gender inequality designed to help instructors teach this notorious triad more effectively. This book, which is best suited for high school or lower division undergraduate courses, has a broad appeal and may be used in Sociology, Women's Studies, or other social science disciplines. In a little over 600 pages, the articles cover a wide array of topics including the social construction of gender, white privilege, poverty statistics, racial profiling, and homophobia in schools, to name a few. For students who find any topics or themes appealing, Rothenberg provides a list of suggested readings at the end of each section.

In the United States of America, we as the person rule this homeland have nearly all freedoms that any could inquire for. Yet time in and time out we jumble so numerous distinct modes of life into their own that we overlook that we require reside inhabits the way that we desire, and not the way other ones desire us. A feminine should have bends and a less petit body. So for demonstration take women in athletics, every woman that has ever taken part the Olympic sport has to proceed through a strong gynecological personal, while men manage not. Society prescribes a set of directions or " roles," which comprises of how one is presumed to and not presumed to dress, proceed, believe, seem, concern to other ones, believe of oneself, and so on (Brodkin, 2010).

Discussion

Rothenberg organized this collection of over 100 essays into eight parts. Instead of dividing her chapters by ethnic group or system of oppression, she refreshingly divides them in a more conceptually sophisticated manner. First, she introduces articles that explain how race, gender, sexual orientation, and the underclass are social constructions. The essays, in this part, are graded in personal ...