Class Structure and Intergenerational Class Mobility: A Comparative Analysis of Nation and Gender

Social Forces ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Western
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
And Gender

John Harry Goldthorpe: Weighing the Biological Ballast Informing Class Structure and Class Mobility

2018 ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Steven C. Hertler ◽  
Aurelio José Figueredo ◽  
Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre ◽  
Heitor B. F. Fernandes ◽  
Michael A. Woodley of Menie
Keyword(s):  
Class Structure ◽  
Class Mobility

Class and Gender: A Note on Class Structure in Norway and USA

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Mjøset ◽  
Trond Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Class Structure ◽  
And Gender

Indirect Agents of Empire

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verity G. McInnis
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Critical Dimension ◽  
British India ◽  
The Social ◽  
Army Officers ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
The U.S

The experiences of army officers’ wives stationed in British India and the U.S. West during the period 1830–1875 offer a critical dimension to understandings of imperialism. This comparative analysis argues that these women designed a distinct identity that blueprinted, directed, and legitimized the ambitions of empire. In feminizing the Army’s ranking system, officers’ wives appropriated and wielded male authority. Military homes—a space where class, race, ethnicity, and gender intersected—functioned as operational sites of empire, and, in managing household servants, officers’ wives both designed and endorsed the principles of benevolent imperialism. Whether adjudicating local disputes, emasculating soldier-servants of lower rank, or enacting the social norms of the metropole, these women confidently executed their duty as imperial agents.

Extinction, Taxidermy, Tableaux Vivants: Staging Race and Class in The House of Mirth

PMLA ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie A. Kassanoff
Keyword(s):  
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Rare And Endangered Species ◽  
Tableaux Vivants ◽  
Rare And Endangered ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The House Of Mirth

Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth documents a twenty-nine-year-old debutante's disinheritance—from money, family, power, love, and social position. On a more profound level, however, the novel pursues the opposite end. Although Lily Bart is plainly vulnerable to the whims of what Charlotte Perkins Gilman called the “sexuo-economic relation,” she is nonetheless dramatically resistant to the attritional ravages of racial disintegration. This paper argues that race in The House of Mirth is an essentialist—if deeply problematic—answer to the cultural slippages of class and gender. By locating the novel within the diverse range of cultural phenomena that contributed to its racialized logic, this essay connects Wharton's fears of class mobility, mass production, immigration, and “race suicide” to the taxidermic aesthetic of racialized stasis. Part of a rare and endangered species, Lily becomes Wharton's decadent specimen of racial permanence.

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