Author : Eileen Boris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052178641X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Book Synopsis Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity by : Eileen Boris
Download or read book Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity written by Eileen Boris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on complicating central concepts in the understanding of economic and social history: class, gender, race and ethnicity. Only recently have historians begun to ask how gender, race, and ethnicity as categories of analysis change narratives of class formation and working-class experience. While all three concepts refer to systems of inequality, it remains unclear how these systems of difference relate to each other. Despite a growing body of empirical literature, authors more often connect dyads rather than consider historical phenomenan from the tryad of class, race and gender. This volume highlights attempts to write a richer history that complicates categories, suggesting how class, gender, race and/or ethnicity combine across a wide range of economic and social landscapes.