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Talks about the experience of women of color African Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. This work discusses the social conditions that simultaneously oppress women of color and provide sites for opposition. It uncovers similar experiences in the classroom, workplace, family, prison, and other settings.

Analyzing varying perceptions of women of the New Right, this book examines their beliefs and values, their vision of America, their interpretations of Communism, big government, and feminism, as well as their view of themselves as women and as political actors.

Focuses on working-class women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds employed in a variety of jobs. This work documents the story of women learning about the sources of their powerlessness and mobilizing to increase their power.

Analyzes the social organization of street hustling and the lives of the women involved in it. This book offers an alternative to sociological studies that view the 'women's movement' as directly linked to the increasing participation of women in property crime.

Like it or not, all of us who live in modern society are organization men and women. We tend to be caught in the traditional patterns of dominance and subordination. This book shows how pervasive patterns of relationship are in our work lives and personal lives, and how deep they run - into the language of the organization and of ordinary life.

Investigates intact marriages to examine the impact of fresh expectations in a culture of divorce. This title examines the shifting meanings of divorce and gender for two generations of middle-class, married couples. It states that the social and economic conditions support and undermine the efforts of spouses to redefine the meaning of marriage.

Focuses on the women in jobs that typify the vast majority of women's employment in the United States. Interviewing a racially and ethnically diverse group of women hospital workers clerical workers, janitorial workers, nurses, and nurse's aids, this title analyzes what it means to be at once a mother who is employed and a worker with children.

Global attention has focused on some remarkable transitions to democracy on different continents. Those transitions have often failed to improve the situation of women, and democratic practices have not included women in government. This title includes essays and a conclusion that show the upsurge of interest in women and development since 1990.