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Joan Acker

Sociology

#213

World Rank

#281

Historical Rank

#107

USA Rank

Feminist Sociology

#3

World Rank

#3

Historical Rank

#2

USA Rank

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Joan Acker's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Joan Elise Robinson Acker was an American sociologist, researcher, writer and educator. She joined the University of Oregon faculty in 1967. Acker is considered one of the leading analysts regarding gender and class within the second wave of feminism.

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Joan Acker's Published Works

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HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES: (1990) (4650)
Inequality Regimes (2006) (1920)
From Sex Roles to Gendered Institutions (1992) (854)
Objectivity and truth: Problems in doing feminist research☆ (1983) (693)
Gendering Organizational Theory (1992) (592)
Excerpts from “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations” (2020) (463)
Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lecture INEQUALITY REGIMES Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations 1 (2006) (447)
Gendered organizations and intersectionality: problems and possibilities (2012) (409)
Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism (1973) (330)
Gender, Capitalism and Globalization (2004) (321)
The Future of ‘Gender and Organizations’: Connections and Boundaries (1998) (296)
Differential Recruitment and Control: The Sex Structuring of Organizations. (1974) (277)
Class Questions: Feminist Answers (2005) (268)
From glass ceiling to inequality regimes (2009) (253)
Class, Gender, and the Relations of Distribution (1988) (203)
The Problem with Patriarchy (1989) (133)
Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class and Pay Equity (1989) (109)
Revisiting Class: Thinking from Gender, Race, and Organizations (2000) (109)
The gender regime of Swedish banks (1994) (106)
Gendered Contradictions in Organizational Equity Projects (2000) (94)
Women and Stratification: A Review of Recent Literature (1980) (87)
Gender and Organizations (2006) (84)
Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform (2010) (64)
The Future of Women and Work: Ending the Twentieth Century (1992) (51)
Book review symposium: Sylvia Walby, Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (2013) (44)
THINKING ABOUT WAGES: (1991) (42)
Helpful Men and Feminist Support: More than Double Strangeness (2008) (40)
Doing Comparable Worth (1989) (37)
Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States (2005) (37)
Comments on Burawoy on Public Sociology (2005) (34)
Comparable worth : new directions for research (1986) (32)
In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations. Cynthia CockburnThe Promise and the Price: The Struggle for Equal Opportunity in Women's Employment. Clare Burton (1994) (25)
Making Change : A Framework for Promoting Gender Equity in Organizations 10 (2015) (18)
Gender, sexuality, and violence in organizations (2003) (18)
Pleasure, Power, & Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace. (1996) (14)
Introduction: “The Missing Feminist Revolution” Symposium (2006) (13)
Feminist Theory's Unfinished Business (2008) (12)
Welfare Restructuring, Work & Poverty: Policy Implications from Oregon (2002) (10)
Joan Acker's review of the contributing papers, edited by Susan Sayce (2012) (9)
Comments on MacKinnon's "Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State" (1984) (6)
Women, Work, & Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality (2011) (6)
What Happened to the Women's Movement? An Exchange (2001) (5)
Societal and Familial Supports in the Development of Feminists. (1972) (3)
Response to Acker and Eisenstein (2001) (3)
Expressiveness Reevaluated (1975) (3)
The Gender and Race Structure of Market Processes (1995) (3)
Diverting Dependency: The Effects of Diversion on the Short Term Outcomes of TANF Applicants (2007) (3)
The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class (2005) (2)
3. Doing the Work of Welfare Enforcing “Self-Sufficiency” on the Front Lines (2013) (1)
Paycheck Equity. (Book Reviews: Comparable Worth. Theories and Evidence.) (1993) (1)
1. History and Political Economy of Welfare in the United States and Oregon (2013) (1)
Introduction: Women and Work (1975) (1)
Gender and the Construction of Class. (1983) (1)
2. Velvet Gloves, Iron Fists, and Rose-Colored Glasses Welfare Administrators and the Official Story of Welfare Restructuring (2013) (1)
Introduction: Questioning the Success of Welfare Reform (2013) (1)
Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation by Race and Class, 1960-1980. Natalie J. SokoloffDecisions without Hierarchy: Feminist Interventions in Organization Theory and Practice. Kathleen P. IannelloGender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administra (1995) (1)
Towards a Feminist Institutionalism ? Gender , public administration and new institutionalism ; new combinations towards a feminist institutionalism ? (2008) (1)
Comments on: “The gender regime of Swedish banks” (2006) (1)
6. Life After Welfare The Costs of Low-Wage Employment (2013) (1)
From Welfare State to Cultural Turn: Swedish Sociology (1997) (1)
5. The Other Side of the Desk Client Experiences and Perspectives on Welfare Restructuring (2013) (1)
Conclusion: Reforming Welfare “Reform” (2013) (0)
Two Recent Books on Family Planning (1962) (0)
Book Review:Women, Wives, Mothers: Values and Options Jessie Bernard (1976) (0)
FILMED FROM BEST AVAILABLE COPY-SOCIETAL AND FAMILIAL SUPPORTS Iii THE DEVELOPAENT OF FEWINISTS (2011) (0)
From the Center ; 2003 : 1 (Spring) (2003) (0)
Appendix A. Country Reports (0)
4. Negotiating Neoliberal Ideology and “On the Ground” Reality in Welfare Work (2013) (0)
Book Review:Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. Claudia Goldin (1991) (0)
Volume Information (1974) (0)
About the Authors (1983) (0)
CSWS Review ; 2008 : 1 (Winter) (2008) (0)
CSWS Review ; 2006 : 2 (Spring) (2006) (0)
Index to Gender & Society (2006) (0)
The Status of Women at the University of Oregon. Report of an Ad Hoc Committee. (1970) (0)
About the Authors (2004) (0)
Relationships between institutions : a case study of a public welfare department and business organizations (1968) (0)
Reviews (1996) (0)
Review Article (1982) (0)
Old and New Boundaries in Gender Relations (Or Gender Relations in Troubled Times) (1999) (0)
Book Review:Sex Segregation in the Workplace: Trends, Explanations, Remedies Barbara F. Reskin (1986) (0)
Appendix: Situating Ourselves (2013) (0)
Reviews (1992) (0)
Reviews (1988) (0)
Book Review:Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement. Linda M. Blum (1992) (0)
Talking About Gender, Race and Class: Bringing Capitalism Back In: An Outline of a Preliminary Argument (2007) (0)
A review essay (1986) (0)

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