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The ‘triple overlap’ refers to the link between gender stratification, the household and economic variables. In this volume, leading sociologists examine this overlap as a totality, providing theoretical concepts and new research on how the triple overlap works, both inside the family and within the broader context of society. Their competing conceptions of the interrelationship of gender, family and economy are bolstered by empirical papers which raise questions of culture, class and race within the contexts of both the developed and developing worlds. Six of the articles in this volume were previously published as a Special Issue of Journal of Family Issues.
Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class Oppression
Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class Oppression
The failure of the feminist movement to address the concerns of black, Hispanic, and Asian-American women is currently engendering widespread discussion in white women's organizations. Paralleling this discussion is a growing interest among racial ethnic women1 in articulating aspects of their experiences that have been ignored in feminist analyses of women's oppression (e.g., oral histories by Sterling, 1979; Elessar, MacKenzie, and Tixier y Vigil, 1980; Kim, 1983, and social and historical studies by Dill, 1979; Mirande and Enriquez, 1979, Davis, 1981; Hooks, 1981; Jones, 1984).2
As an initial corrective, racial ethnic scholars have begun research on racial ethnic women in relation to employment, ...