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Digesting Race, Class, and Gender

Sugar as a Metaphor

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  • © 2010

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  1. Ivy Ken
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. A Conceptual Reorientation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Metaphor and the Organization of Social Life

      • Ivy Ken
      Pages 3-13

    3. Race, Class, and Gender as Organizing Principles

      • Ivy Ken
      Pages 15-51

  3. Using Food to Identify Relationships Among Race, Class, and Gender

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Producing Race, Class, and Gender

      • Ivy Ken
      Pages 55-75

    3. Mixing Race, Class, and Gender

      • Ivy Ken
      Pages 77-104

    4. Digesting Race, Class, and Gender

      • Ivy Ken
      Pages 105-124

  4. Searching for Evidence of Relationships at Specific Sites

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. The Multirelational Character of Race, Class, and Gender

      • Ivy Ken
      Pages 127-148

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 149-165
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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 facilitate the digestion of another. At each of these sites, the "foods" of race, class, and gender are involved in dynamic relationships with each other that have implications for the shape - or the taste - of our social order.

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IVY KEN Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, USA.

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