Talking About Gender, Race and Class: Bringing Capitalism Back In: An Outline of a Preliminary Argument

Joan Acker

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.200701.010

Keywords: Social Theory, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Critique, Digital Society, Sociology, Scholarly Journal, Peer reviewed journal, Ben Agger, Tim Luke

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Author Biography

Joan Acker

Joan Acker is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, USA. Her scholarship has focused on class, women and work, gender and organizations, and feminist theory. Her visiting professorships include three years at the Swedish Center for Working Life in Stockholm, Sweden and the Marie Jahoda International Guest Professorship at Bochum University, Bochum, Germany. She has been awarded the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and the ASA Jessie Bernard Award for feminist scholarship. She is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, a major feminist center for scholarship on gender and women. Her book, Class Questions: Feminist Answers, was published in January, 2006 by Rowman and Littlefield. "Inequality Regimes: Gender, Race, and Class in Organizations" published in Gender and Society in 2006 is her most recent article. A new book, Neo-liberalism on the Ground: Doing Welfare Restructuring, coauthored with Sandra Morgen and Jill Weigt, will be finished in 2007. This book is based on a large, collaborative study of welfare reform in the state of Oregon, Oregon Families who Left Temporary Assistance to Needy Families or Food Stamps: A Study of Economic and Family Well-Being from 1998 to 2000 done by Acker, Morgen, and Weigt. Her recent publications also include "Revisiting Class: Thinking from Gender, Race, and Organizations" (Social Politics 2000), "Rewriting Class, race, and gender: Problems in feminist rethinking" (in Revisioning Gender, 1999), and Work, Welfare and Politics (2002), co-editied with Frances Fox Piven, Margaret Hallock, and Sandra Morgen. Earlier work includes Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class and Pay Equity (1989) and "Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations" (Gender and Society 1990).

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2019-04-16

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2007): Fast Capitalism 2.2

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