Challenging racism and sexism : alternatives to genetic explanations

Book

Challenging racism and sexism : alternatives to genetic explanations / edited by Ethel Tobach and Betty Rosoff.

Tobach, Ethel, 1921- (Added Author). Rosoff, Betty. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1558610898 (alk. paper) :
ISBN: 9781558610897 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 1558610901 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
ISBN: 9781558610903 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: viii, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Cover title: Challenging racism & sexism.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Race and sex as biological categories / Ruth Hubbard -- Critique of recent genetic research related to issues of racism and sexism / Ethel Tobach and Betty Rosoff -- Can we draw conclusions about human societal behavior from population genetics? / Val Woodward -- Race and gender fallacies : the paucity of biological determinist explanations of difference / Gisela Kaplan and Lesley J. Rogers -- Racism and sexism : comparisons and conflicts / Pamela Trotman Reid -- African-American women : derivatives of racism and sexism in psychotherapy / Beverly Greene -- Race and gender : the limits of analogy / Linda Burnham -- The genetic fix : the social origins of genetic determinism / Garland E. Allen -- Irreducible "human nature" : Nazi views on Jews and women / Gisela Kaplan --

When race and gender collide : the Martinsville Seven case as a case study of the "rape-lynch" controversy / Gerald Horne -- Perspectives of Native American women on race and gender / Frederica Y. Daly -- Educational policy in recent history : reflections on science, ideology, and political action / Bonnie Ellen Blustein -- Growing up black in Puerto Rico / Carmen Luz Valcarcel -- School performance of Asian-American and Asian children : myth and fact / Choichiro Yatani -- Feminist reflections on the interplay of racism and sexism in Israel / Simona Sharoni -- Millennium foretold / Georgine Sanders.