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Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression

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  • Evelyn nakano Glenn

    (Department of Sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306.)

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A colonial labor system and other forms of racial oppression shaped the productive and reproductive labor of racial ethnic women in ways that made their experiences fundamentally different from those underlying the construction of feminist analyses of women's oppression. For black, Mexican-American and Chinese-American women, key concepts such as the private-public dichotomy, gender conflict within the family and the division of reproductive labor need to be reformulated. This study examines the historical evidence on black, Mexican-American and Chinese-American women's work from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in light of contemporary Marxist-feminist and colonial labor system theories. Thus, the author begins to reformulate and synthesize key concepts in these contemporary theories to explain the experiences of racial ethnic women.

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  • Evelyn nakano Glenn, 1985. "Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 17(3), pages 86-108, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:17:y:1985:i:3:p:86-108
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    1. Judith Robinson, 2002. "Race, Gender, and Familial Status: Discrimination in One US Mortgage Lending Market," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 63-85.
    2. Jenny Rodriguez & Evangelina Holvino & Joyce K. Fletcher & Stella M. Nkomo & Melanie Knight, 2016. "Race-ing, Classing and Gendering Racialized Women's Participation in Entrepreneurship," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(3), pages 310-327, May.

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