Everyday Inequalities

Thirteen newly published articles on case studies performed by sociologists demonstrating the everyday interactions that reinforce dominance and resistance in modern 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