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Gender Trials: Emotional Lives In Contemporary Law Firms
This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for wome... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action
How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980s and early 1990s—just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to en... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Narrative Sociology
This book defines classics, identifies exemplars of narrative analysis, and delineates a field in the making.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Queer Twin Cities
by Michael Franklin • Jennifer L. Pierce • Patrick Ryan • Kevin P. Murphy • Jason Ruiz • Susan Craddock • Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project Staff • Alex T. Urquhart • Larry Knopp • Charlotte Albrecht • Pamela Butler • Brandon Lacy CmaposThe Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation-and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project-a collective organization of students, scholars, and activists ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010