Part I. Helpful conceptual tools -- Mysterious power of social structures / Charles Lemert -- "They" are all the same, but each member of my group is unique / Stephen Worchel -- Part II. Embedded ideology : racism/ethnocentrism and sexism -- Black women and feminism / bell hooks -- Divining our racial themes / Derrick Bell -- Size 6 : the Western women's harem / Fatema Mernissi -- Part III. The other wears many faces -- Diversity and its discontents / Arturo Madrid -- Coping with the alienation of white, male students / Billie Wright Dziech -- The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- Part IV. Structured inequality : the invisible iron cage of class -- The double-bind of the "working-class," feminist academic : the success of failure or the failure of success? / Diane Reay -- (In)secure times : constructing white working-class masculinities in the late twentieth century / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Judi Addelston, and Julia Marusza -- Part V. Structured inequality : race/ethnicity -- A black woman took my job / Michael Kimmel -- Are men marginal to the family? insights from Chicago's inner city / Haya Stier and Marta Tienda -- Policing the ghetto underclass : the politics of law and law enforcement / William J. Chambliss -- America's Iron Curtain : the Border Patrol state / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The heartland's raw deal : how meatpacking is creating a new immigrant underclass / Marc Cooper -- Part VI. Structured inequality : acquiring gender -- Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex" / Judith Butler -- Believing is seeing : biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Toward safer societies : punishment, masculinities, and violence against women / Laureen Snider -- Tomboys yes, Janegirls never / Barbara A. Arrighi -- Hormonal hurricanes : menstruation and female behavior / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Part VII. Corporate gatekeeping : fitting in -- Talking from 9 to 5 : how women's and men's conversational styles affect who gets heard, who gets credit, and what gets done at work / Deborah Tannen -- Women in the power elite / Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff -- Women above the glass ceiling : perceptions on corporate mobility and strategies for success / Sally Ann Dauies-Netzley -- Invisible women / Katha Pollitt -- Part VIII. Women's equality : progress and resistance -- Women against women : American antisuffragism, 1880-1920 / Jane Jerome Camhi -- Where the girls are : growing up female with the mass media / Susan J. Douglas -- Mating, marriage, and the marketplace : a survey of college students' attitudes and expectations / Barbara A. Arrighi -- Part IX. The price of deviance -- The unruly woman : gender and the genres of laughter / Kathleen Rowe -- Black man with a nose job : how we defend ethnic beauty in America / Lawrence Otis Graham -- Hitting bottom : homelessness, poverty, and masculinity / Timothy Nonn -- Older men as invisible men in contemporary society / Edward H. Thompson -- Part X. Patriarchy and its consequences -- The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill -- Real rape / Susan Estrich -- Clarence Thomas, patriarchal discourse, and public/private spheres / Mary F. Rogers -- Part XI. Equality and the millennium : the crisis in education has consequences for the -isms -- How Harvard helped curb Title IX's role in admitting women / Karen Blumenthal -- Downsizing higher education : confronting the new realities of the high-tech information age global economy / Walda Katz-Fishman.