Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Own or Other Culture John Okely, New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: racisms and multiculture in young lives Les Back, Consumption and Identity at Work Paul du Gay, Gender, Culture and Organizational Change: Putting theory into practice Catherine Itzin and Janet Newman (eds), Good enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Mothering E.B. Silvam (ed.), Citizenship Today: The Contemporary Relevance of T. H. Marshall Martin Bulmer and Anthony M. Rees (eds), Democracy and the Global Order. From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance David Held, Conflicts about class: debating inequality in late industrialism. D.J. Lee and B.S. Turner (eds), Medicine, Health and Risk: Sociological Approaches Jonathon Gabe (ed.), Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis Barry Barnes, War Stories – The Culture of Foreign Correspondents Mark Pedelty,     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Carol Miller and Shahra Razavi (eds), Missionaries and Mandarins: Feminist Engagement with Development Institutions Joel F. Handler and Lucie White (eds), Hard Labor: Women and Work in the Post‐Welfare Era K. Kempadoo and J. Doezema, Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition Paul Iles, Managing Staff Selection and Assessment Danusia Malina and Sian Maslin‐Protheroe, Surviving the Academy: Feminist Perspectives Jim Stewart, Employee Development Practice     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Stephen Whitehead and Roy Moodley (eds), Transforming Managers: Gendering Change in the Public Sector Julia O'Connell Davidson, Prostitution, Power and Freedom Su Maddock, Challenging Women Kathleen Weiler and Sue Middleton (eds), Telling Women's Lives Eileen Drew, Ruth Emerek and Evelyn Mahon, Women, Work and the Family in Europe Ian Proctor and Maureen Padfield, Young Adult Women, Work and Family     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Work, Urbanism and Inequality by Philip Abrams, (ed.) Arguments Within English Marxism by Perry Anderson The Future with Microelectronics: Forecasting the Effects of Information Technology by Iann Barren and Ray Curnow Kings or People—Power and the Mandate to Rule by Reinhard Bendix Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain by James E. Cronin The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science by Margrit Eichler Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time by Herbert J. Gans Words and Things by Ernest Gellner Central Problems in Sociological Theory: Action, Structure ard Contradiction in Social Analysis by Anthony Giddens Population and Development: High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries by Geoffrey Hawthorn (ed.) Elites in Australia by John Higley et al On Law and Ideology by Paul Hirst Praxis and Method: A Sociological Dialogue with Lukács, Gramsci and the Early Frankfurt School by Richard Kilminster The Technical Intelligentsia and the Soviet State by Nicholas Lampert Statistical Demography by Roland Pressat, translated and adapted from the French by Damien A. Courtney. Work Organisations: Resistance and Control by Graeme Salaman The Fate of the Anglican Clergy by Robert Towler and A. P. M Coxen. Between Labour and Capital by Pat Walker (ed.) Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses by Dennis H. Wrong Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Hermeneutics and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding by Zygmunt Bauman Structure, Consciousness and History by Richard Harvey Brown and Stanford M. Lyman (eds.) The Politics of Legitimacy: Struggles in a Belfast Community by Frank Burton. City, Class and Power by Manuel Castells, translated by Elizabeth Lebas Australian Society. A Sociological Introduction by A. F. Davies, S. Encel and M. J. Berry (eds.) The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory by John P. Diggins Groups and Individuals: Explanations in Social Psychology by Willem Doise Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism by Andrew L. Friedman Illegitimacy, Sexuality and the Status of Women by Derek Gill Teachers, Ideology and Control: A Study in Urban Education by Gerald Grace The Liberation of Women: A Study in Patriarchy and Capitalism by Roberta Hamilton Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden by W. Korpi Power and the State by Gary Littlejohn, Barry Smart, John Wakeford and Nina Yuval-Davies (eds. Marx: Sociology/Social Change/Capitalism by Donald McQuarie (ed) Marx's Theory of Politics by John M. Maguire The Rules of Disorder by P. Marsh, E. Rosser and R. Harré The Dilemmas of Contemporary Religion by David Martin A General Theory of Secularization by David Martin Tragic Realism and Modem Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Novel by John Orr Karl Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge by A. P. Simonds Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct by David Sudnow The Personnel Managers: A Study in the Sociology of Work and Employment by Tony J. Watson Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales by Glyn Williams (ed.) The American Ideology: Science, Technology and Organization as Modes of Rationality in Advanced Industrial Societies by H. T. Wilson The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions by William Julius Wilson     

Working Mothers: A Review

Books reviewed in this article: Elizabeth Bortalaia Silva (eds), Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards (eds), Single Mothers in an International Context: Mothers or Workers? Kim England, Who Will Mind the Baby? Geographies of Child Care and Working Mothers     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach Andrew Sayer The Perspective of Ethnomethodology Douglas Benson and John A. Hughes Soeiology, Ethnomethodology and Experience Mary F. Rogers The Social Dimension: European Developments in Social Psychology Henri Tajfel (ed.) Rethinking Cognitive Theory Jeff Coulter Beyond the State? Dominant Theories and Socialist Strategies Boris Frankel War, State and Society M. Shaw (ed.) Prisons and the Process of Justice Andrew Rutherford Regulating Society: Marginality and Social Control in Historical Perspeetive Ephraim H. Mizruchi Terrorism in Northern Ireland Alfred McClung Lee Classes in Contemporary Japan Rob Steven School Leavers and their Prospects: Youth and the Labour Market in the 1980s Kenneth Roberts Unfairly Structured Cities Blair Badcock Urban Social Research: Problems and Prospects (Sociological Review Monograph: 30) 169 Valdo Pons and Ray Francis (eds) Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 2 I.H. Simpson and R.L. Simpson (eds) Work and Family: Changing Roles of Men and Women P. Voydanoff (ed.) Women and Education S. Acker, J. Megarry, S. Nisbet and E. Hoyle (eds) Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behaviour in Conversation Geoffrey Beattie British Social Attitudes. The 1984 Report R. Jowell and C. Airey (eds) The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain 1930-1939 Jeffrey Richards     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Sport and Work Bero Rigauer. Sociological Impressionism: a Reassessment of Georg Simmers Social Theory David Frisby. Doing Feminist Research Helen Roberts (ed.) Modern Policing D. Pope and L. Weiner (ed). Police Behavior R. Lundman (ed). Policing the Inner City M. Punch. The Sociology of Journalism and the Press Harry Christian (ed). Exploring Participation Paul Bate and Iain Mangham. Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petty Bourgeoisie Gavin Kitching. Organization without authority: dilemmas of social control in free schools Ann Swidler. Further Education or Training? A Case Study in the Theory and Practice of Day-Release Education Denis Gleeson and George Mardle. Kinship at the Core Marilyn Strathem. The World of States: Connected Essays J. D. B. Miller. State and Class: A Sociology of International Affairs Ralph Pettman. Corporations, Classes and Capitalism John Scott. The Challenge of Corporatism Otto Newman. Power, Property and Corporatism: The Political Sociology of Planning James Simmie. Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment André Gunder Frank. World Accumulation, 1492–1789 André Gunder Frank. REVIEW ARTICLE Althusser meets Anancy: Structuralism and Popular Protest in Ken Post's History of Jamaica Robin Cohen     

Book Reviews

Family and Society in American History. Getting Out: Life Stories of Women Who Left Abusive Men. Walking a Tightrope: Meeting the Challenges of Work and Family. Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives From the Lives of African‐American and Jewish Women. Talk of Love: How Culture Matters.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed; Jacqueline DeLaat, Gender in the Workplace: A Case Study Approach Jeff Hearn, The Violences of Men Janet L. Finn, Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata Jill Blackmore, Troubling Women: Feminism, Leadership and Educational Change Kristen A. Myers, Cynthia D. Anderson and Barbara J. Risman (eds), Feminist Foundations: Toward Transforming Sociology Pat Mahoney and Christine Zmroczek (eds), Class Matters: ‘Working‐Class’ Women's Perspectives on Social Class     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Law, Crime and Sexuality: Essays in Feminism Carol Smart Theory in its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Movements Katie King Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism Caroline Ramazanoglu, (ed.) Critical Theory David Couzens Hoy and Thomas McCarthy Reading, Writing & Rewriting the Prostitute Body Shannon Bell Theorising Citizenship R. Beiner (ed.) Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community C. Mouffe (ed.) Race, Politics and Social Change John Solomos and Les Back The People's Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe and America Michael Harloe Green Networks: A Structural Analysis of the Italian Environmental Movement Mario Diani Understanding the Family J. Muncie et al. (eds) A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia Bina Agrawal The Sociology of Health and Illness Sarah Nettleton The Healing Bond: The Patient–Practitioner Relationship and Therapeutic Responsibility Susan Budd and Ursula Sharma, (eds) Scotland – the Brand: The Making of Scottish Heritage David McCrone, Angela Morris and Richard Kiely Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change John Fiske Sociology and Visual Representation Elizabeth Chaplin Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power Nicholas Blomley     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Modernization and Development : Bartley , Numan V. The New Smith 1945–1980: The Story of the South's Modernization. Modernization and Development : Pudup , Mary Beth , Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller . Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Modernization and Development : Chevalier , Jacques M. and Daniel Buckles . A Land Without Gods: Process Theory, Maldevelopment and the Mexican Nahuas. Modernization and Development : Cassen , Robert . 1994. Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions. Modernization and Development : Cohen , Joel E. 1995. How Many People Can the Eartzt Support? Modernization and Development : Pratt , Jeff . The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Cultural Change in Tuscany. Modernization and Development : Kurtz , Don . South of the Big Four. Environment and Natural Resources : Binkley , Marian . Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery. Environment and Natural Resources : Margavio , Anthony and Craig J. Forsyth, with Shirley Laska and James Mason . Caught in the Net: The Conflict between Shrimpers and Conservationists. Community : Dasgupta , Satadal (ed.). The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban. Community : Daniels , Thomas L., John W. Keller, and Mark B. Lapping . The Small Town Planning Handbook. Rural History : Shoemaker , Nancy (ed.). Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women. Rural History : Pickle , Linda Schelbitzki . Contented Among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. Rural History : Yoder , Franklin L. Opening a Window to the World: A History of Iowa Mennonite School.     

Book Reviews

Ahmed, Belal and Afroz, Sultana The Political Economy of Food and Agriculture in the Caribbean Ake, Claude Democracy and Development in Africa Bhagwati, Jagdish N. and Hudec, Robert E. (eds) Fair Trade and Harmonization: Prerequisites for Free Trade? Volume 1: Economic Analysis; Volume 2: Legal Analysis Clüsener-Godt, M. and Sachs, I. (eds) Brazilian Perspectives on Sustainable Development of the Amazon Region Cromwell, Elizabeth Governments, Farmers and Seeds in a Changing Africa Engberg-Pedersen, Poul, Gibbon, Peter, Raikes, Phil and Udsholt, Lars (eds) Limits of Adjustment in Africa: The Effects of Economic Liberalization Gibbon, Peter and Olukoshi, Adebayo O. Structural Adjustment and Socio-Economic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Conceptual, Methodological and Research Issues Hook, Steven (ed.), Foreign Aid Toward the Millennium Hossain, Akhtar and Chowdhury, Anis Monetary and Financial Policies in Developing Countries: Growth and Stabilisation Kapur, Ratna and Cossman, Brenda Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India Keller, Edmond J. and Rothchild, Donald (eds) Africa in the New International Order: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Regional Security Leach, Melissa and Mearns, Robin (eds) The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment Nonneman, Gerd (ed.) Political Liberalization: Dynamics and Linkages in Comparative Perspective Reij, Chris, Scoones, Ian and Toulmin, Camilla (eds) Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa Shukri, Shirin J.A. Arab Women: Unequal Partners in Development Stokke, Olav (ed.) Foreign Aid Towards the Year 2000: Experiences and Challenges Tarp, Finn and Brixen, Peter The South African Economy: Macroeconomic Prospects for the Medium Term     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Issues: Hallam , Arne (ed.). Size, Structure, and the Changing Face of American Agriculture. Agricultural Issues: Andrew , Chris O., and Peter E. Hildebrand . Applied Agricultural Research: Foundations and Methodology. Agricultural Issues: Abrahams , Ray . A Place of Their Own: Family Farming in Eastern Finland Agricultural Issues: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development . Agricultural Issues: Amato , Joseph A. The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream. Agricultural Issues: Hurt , R. Douglas . Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie. Agricultural Issues: Salamon , Sonya . Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming and Community in the Midwest. Environment and Community: Bullard , Robert D. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality. Environment and Community: Bullard , Robert D. (ed.). Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Environment and Community: Bullard , Robert D. (ed.). Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. Environment and Community: Frazer , Elizabeth , and Nicola Lacey . The Politics of Community: A Feminist Critique of the Liberal-Communitarian Debate. Development: Elliott , Jennifer A. An Introduction to Sustainable Development. Development: Tisch , Sarah J., and Michael B. Wallace . Dilemmas of Development Assistance: The What, Why and Who of Foreign Aid. Development: Amato , Joseph , and John W. Meyer . Regional Studies: Reed , John Shelton . Surveying the South: Studies in Regional Sociology. Regional Studies: Salstrom , Paul . Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region's Economic History, 1730–1940. Regional Studies: Samson , Daniel (ed.). Contested Countryside: Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada, 1800–1950.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Debates in Sociology: David Morgan and Liz Stanley (eds) The Ethics of Social Research: Roger Homan The Politics of Truth: from Marx to Foucault: Michèle Barrett Derrida: A Critical Reader: David Wood (ed.) Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture: Mike Gane The Two Sovereigns: Social Contradictions of European Modernity: Keith Tester Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History: E. Tonkin Other Histories: Kirsten Hastrup (ed.) Introducing Women's Studies: Feminist Theory and Practice: Diane Richardson and Victoria Robinson (eds) Gender and Bureaucracy: M. Savage and A. Witz, (eds) Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family: Ben Fine Of Mice and Women: Aspects of Female Aggression: Kaj Bjordkqvist and Pirkko Niemela (eds) Men In the Public Eye: Jeff Hearn Discovering Men: David Morgan Body Matters: Essays on the Sociology of the Body: Sue Scott and David Morgan, (eds) Youth and Inequality: Inge Bates and George Riseborough, (eds) Down On Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People: David A. Snow and Leon Anderson Race, the City, and the State: Malcolm Cross and Michael Keith, (eds) Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: The Politics of Interpretation: Norman K. Denzin From Class Structure to the Politics of Pleasure; The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies: David Harris The Sports Process; A Comparative and Developmental Approach: E. Dunning, J. Maguire and R. Pearton (eds)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Labour Market Structures and Prospects for Women edited by Robert Lindley Women and Low Pay: Identifying the Issues by Shirley Dex, Steve Lissenbourg and Mark Taylor Women in Post-Compulsory Education and Training in Wales by David Istance and Teresa Rees Equality Issues in Scotland: A Research Review by Alice Brown, Esther Breitenbach and Fiona Myers. Black Women in the Labour Market, a Research Review by R. Bhavnani. Ethnic Minority Women and the Labour Market: Analysis of the 1991 Census by D. Owen. The Gender Impact of CCT in Local Government by Karen Escott and Dexter Whitfield     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life M. Featherstone and A. Wernick (eds), Inequality and Old Age John A. Vincent, Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge Stephen Katz, Children, Health and the Social Order Berry Mayall, Family Connections: An Introduction to Family Studies David H.J. Morgan, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women Anne Balsamo, Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought K. Morrison Sage, Sociological Theory. What went Wrong? Diagnosis and Remedies Nicos Mouzelis, Culture, Modernity and Revolution. Essays in Honour of Zygmunt Bauman Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe (eds), Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy J. Habermas, Culture and the Public Sphere Jim McGuigan, Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age Alberto Melucci, Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization: Reinventing the Globe Steven Yearley, The New Age Movement Paul Heelas, The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion David Arnold, The Meaning of Race, Race, History and Culture in Western Society Kenan Malik,     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Environmental Issues : Bartsch , Charles and Elizabeth Collaton . Brownfields: Cleaning and Reusing Contaminated Properties. Environmental Issues : Vanclay , Frank And Geoffrey Lawrence . The Environmental Imperative: Eco-Social Concerns for Australian Agriculture. Social Movements : Carbert, Louise I. Agrarian Feminism: The Politics of Ontario Farm Women. Social Movements : Stock , Catherine Mc Nicol . Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain. Social Theory : Campbell , Colin . The Myth of Social Action. Agriculture : Thurston , H. David . Slash/Mulch Systems: Sustainable Methods for Tropical Agriculture. Agriculture : Nadeau , E. G. and David J. Thompson . Cooperation Works!     

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: SARAH M. CORSE, Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States. LELAND DONALD, Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America. PAUL DU GAY, Consumption and Identity at Work. MICHAELE. HARKIN, The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. DAVID HOWES, Cross-cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities. ALLAN G. JOHNSON, The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice and Promise. BARBARA LAWSON, Collected Curios: Missionary Tales from the South Seas. MARYANN NEELY AYIM, The Moral Parameters of Good Talk: A Feminist Analysis. DOUG OWRAM. Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation. SUSAN PALMER, AIDS as an Apocalyptic Metaphor in North America. JAMES RINEHART, CHRISTOPHER HUXLEY and DAVID ROBERSTON, Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and Its Discontents. ERIC SHRAGGE(ed.), Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-Class. LAURIER TURGEON, DENYS DELAGE and RÉAL OUELLET (eds.), Transferts culturels et métissages Amérique / Europe, XVI^c-XX^e siècle /Cultural Transfer, America and Europe: 500 Years of Interculturation. WILL C. VAN DEN HOONAARD, The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898–1948.     

Developing a mestiza consciousness theoretical framework

Abstract

This article offers Gloria Anzaldúa’s mestiza consciousness as an appropriate theorizing frame when analyzing lived experiences and perceptions of contradiction. First, I discuss the main theoretical frameworks used in sociology when examining the experiences of U.S. women of color: Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought and Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality. Next, I introduce mestiza consciousness as an additional sociologically appropriate framework and discuss how it fits into the tradition of Black Feminist Thought and intersectionality. Finally, I conduct a brief case study in the subdiscipline of the sociology of religion to illustrate mestiza consciousness’ appropriateness as a theoretical frame.