Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australia

List of contents

Contributors

Tables and Figures

Preface

1 Immigration and class: the Australian experience - Jock Collins

2 Ethnicity, multiculturalism and neo-conservatism - Andrew Jakubowicz

3 The 'naturalness' of inequality - Marie de Lepervanche

4 Migrantness, culture and ideology - Michael Morrissey

5 Multiculturalism and education policy - Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope

6 Women on the move: migration and feminism - Gill Bottomley

7 Non English-speaking women: production and social reproduction - Jeannie Martin

8 A new Australian working class leadership: the case of Ford Broadmeadows - Constance Lever Tracy

9 Migrant communities and class politics: the Greek community in Australia - Michael Kakakios and John van de Velden

10 Generations and class: Sicilian-Australians in Melbourne - Bill Hampel

11 Religion, law and family disputes in a Lebanese Muslim community in Sydney - Michael Humphrey

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australia is the culmination of the contributors' years of research, teaching and political action. The editors have written and published widely in the area of race, class and social change, and GILL BOTTOMLEY is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at Macquarie University and is one of the coeditors of the recent book The Family in the Modern World (1983). MARIE DE LEPERVANCHE is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her most recent publication is Indians in a White Australia.

Summary

Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australia is a major study of the impact of immigration on Australian society, and of the fragmentation that has developed along ethnic, class and gender lines.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Bottomley, Gillian De Lepervanche Bottomley, Marie de Lepervanche
• Assisted by: Gill Bottomley (Editor), Gillian Bottomley (Editor), Bottomley Gillian (Editor), Marie de Lepervanche (Editor), Marie M. de Lepervanche (Editor), De Lepervanche Marie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367718022
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71802-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Gender studies, gender groups, Social classes, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity