Everyday Inequalities

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