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Digesting Race, Class, and Gender: Sugar as a Metaphor
Ivy Ken
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Description for Digesting Race, Class, and Gender: Sugar as a Metaphor
Hardcover. This book uses new imagery - the metaphor of sugar - to highlight how race, class, and gender are produced, used, experienced, and 'digested' in our human and institutional bodies. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms conflict or work together? In Digesting Race, Class, and Gender, Ivy Ken likens race, class, and gender to foods - foods that are produced in fields, mixed together in bowls, and digested in our social and institutional bodies. In the field, one food may contaminate another through cross-pollination. In the mixing bowl, each food s original molecular structure changes in the presence of others. And within a meal, the presence of one food may impede or ... Read more
How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms conflict or work together? In Digesting Race, Class, and Gender, Ivy Ken likens race, class, and gender to foods - foods that are produced in fields, mixed together in bowls, and digested in our social and institutional bodies. In the field, one food may contaminate another through cross-pollination. In the mixing bowl, each food s original molecular structure changes in the presence of others. And within a meal, the presence of one food may impede or ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
165
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230600935
SKU
V9780230600935
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99-15
About Ivy Ken
IVY KEN Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, USA.
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