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Race, class, and gender are closely
linked. In order to deal with classism we need to deal
with racism and sexism.
Gender and Class Resources
Featured Gender and Class Resource: Special
Issue of "Off
Our Backs" magazine
on "Women, Money and Class." Sept.-October 2004.
Topics Include:
- Introduction to Special Issue on Women and
Class
- Class Issues: The Bottom Line for Feminist
Change?
- Classism: Why Should We Care?
- From Scholar to Trucker
- Empower DC: Interview with Linda Leaks
- It's the Money, Honey
- Born Poor and Smart
- Are Working
Class Men More Sexist?
- Child Care Now! Mothers Unite to Fight for
Funding
- Bibliography on Class Issues
GENDER AND CLASS LINKS
www.napawf.org
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF)
works to promote the perspectives of women and girls among
communities and to inspire women and girls to actively
seek leadership positions.
www.cluw.org
Coalition
of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is America's only national
organization for union women. Their members are on the
frontline, empowering working women to become leaders in
their unions and encouraging them to make a difference
on the job and, most importantly, in their own lives. CLUW
writes "Our values are simple: solidarity, involvement,
dignity and justice."
www.offourbacks.org
off our backs is a newsjournal by, for, and about women.
It has been published continuously since 1970, making it
the longest surviving feminist newspaper in the United
States.
www.nwlc.org
National Women's Law Center views their mission as protecting
and advancing the progress of women and girls at work,
in school, and in virtually every aspect of their lives.
www.9to5.org
9to5, National Association of Working Women is a national,
grassroots membership organization that strengthens women's
ability to work for economic justice. Founded in 1973,
9to5 has activists in more than 200 cities and members
in every state.
www.iwpr.org
The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a
public policy research organization dedicated to informing
and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical
importance to women and their families. IWPR focuses on
issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings,
work and family issues, health and safety, and women's
civic and political participation.
www.centerwomenpolicy.org
The
Center for Women Policy Studies. Since its
founding in 1972 as the nation's first feminist policy
research organization, the Center for Women Policy Studies
has been on the front lines of efforts to promote justice
and equality for women. Their multiethnic and multicultural
feminist research, policy analysis and advocacy bring women's
diverse voices to important debates -- on women and AIDS,
violence against women and girls, welfare reform, access
to health care, educational equity, work/family and workplace
diversity policies, reproductive rights and health, and
much more.
BOOKS ON GENDER AND CLASS
http://www.asanet.org/sections/rgcbiblio.html
Race, Gender, and Class Bibliography
The American Sociological Association maintains a bibliography
on race, gender and class, edited by Jean Ait Amber Belkhir
and is regularly updated. It contains items ONLY
if they emphasize the three dimensions of race, gender,
and class in their discourse and analysis. This
bibliography includes a lot of articles from periodicals.
Albelda, Randy Pearl and Chris Tilly. Glass
Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty . Boston:
South End Press, 1997.
Amott, Theresa and Matthaei, Julie. Race, Gender,
and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in
the United States . Boston: South End Press,
1991.
Anzaldua, Gloria. Making Faces, Making Soul. Haciendo
Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of
Color . San Francisco: Aunt Late Press, 1990.
Cyrus, V., ed. Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender
in the United States . Mountain View, CA: Mayfield
Publishing Company, 1993.
Davis, Angela. 1990. Women, Culture, Politics. New York:
Vintage Books.
De Santis, Solange. Life on the Line: One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat,
and Survival . New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Dujon, Diane and Withhorn, Ann. For Crying Out Loud:
Women's Poverty in the United States . Boston,
Mass.: South End Press, 1996
hooks, bell . Ain't A Woman: Black Women and Feminism .
Boston, MA: South End Press, 1981.
Jennet, C. and Stewart, R. G., eds. Three Worlds of
Inequality: Race, Class and Gender . Melbourne:
The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1987.
Kendell, Diana. The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged
Woman and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class .
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Mandell, N. ed. Feminist Issues: Race, Class, and
Sexuality . Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice
Hall Canada Inc., 1995.
Moraga, Cherrie, and Anzaldua, Gloria, eds. This Bridge
Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color .
Watertown, MA: Persephone, 1981.
Mullings, Leith. On Our Own Terms: Race, Class,
and Gender in the Lives of African American Women .
New York, NY: Routledge, 1997.
Ostrander, Susan. Women of the Upper Class . Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1984.
Penelope, Julia, ed. Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians
Speak . Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press,
1994.
Simms, Margaret, and Malveaux, Julienne, eds. Slipping
Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women .
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1986.
Smith, Barbara, ed. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology .
New York: Kitchen Table Press. A Women of Color Press,
1983.
Tea, Michelle. Without A Net: The Female Experience
of Growing Up Working Class . Emeryville, CA: Seal
Press, 2003.
Waring, Marilyn. Counting for Nothing: What Men Value
and What Women Are Worth . Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 1999.
Weiler, Kathleen. Women Teaching For Change: Gender, Class & Power.
South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1988.
Zinn, Baca Maxime and Dill, Bonnie Thornton, editors. Women
of Color in U.S. Society . Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1994.
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