Reading between the lines : toward an understanding of current social problems / [compiled by] Amanda Konradi, Martha Schmidt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface
General Introduction

PART I. THINKING ABOUT SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Alexander Liazos, The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Perverts • Elizabeth Szockyj and Nancy Frank, Corporate Victimization of Women • Donileen R. Loeske, Social Problems Work and the Reproduction of Public Problems • John N. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies

PART II. POWER, THE ECONOMY, AND CLASS
William Greider, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism • York W. Bradshaw and Michael Wallace, Constructing a Model of Global Inequalities • Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Have-Mores and Have-Lesses • David M. Gordon, Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial “Downsizing”

PART III. POVERTY
Ruth Sidel, The Enemy Within • Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal • William Julius Wilson, Ghetto-Related Behavior and the Structure of Opportunity • Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley, The Root Causes of Homelessness in American Cities • Herbert Gans, The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy

PART IV. RACE
Grace Chang, Undocumented Latinas: The New “Employable Mothers” • Douglass S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, The Continuing Causes of Segregation • David Wellman, Portraits of White Racism • James L. Robinson, Racism or Attitude?: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation and Self Esteem • Gregg Easterbrook, Blacktop Basketball and The Bell Curve

PART V. GENDER
Joan Huber, Macro-Micro Linkages in Gender Stratification • Laura Ann McCloskey, Socioeconomic and Coercive Power Within the Family • Scott Coltrane, Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity • Mindy Stombler, “Buddies” or “Slutties”: The Collective Sexual Reputation of Fraternity Little Sisters • Dana M. Britton and Christine L. Williams, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue”: Military Policy and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity

PART VI. WORK
Louis Uchitelle and N. R. Kleinfield, The Price of Jobs Lost • Kevin D. Henson, Just A Temp • Heidi Hartmann, Who Has Benefited from Affirmative Action in Employment? • Laurie Graham, On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu

PART VII. FAMILY
Edward L. Kain, The Myth of Family Decline • Lillian B. Rubin, Families on the Fault Line: America’s Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity • Kristin Luker, Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy • Marita Golden, Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World • Judith Stacey, Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here

PART VIII. EDUCATION
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools • David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle, The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud and the Attack on America’s Public Schools • Myra Sadker and David Sadker, Missing in Interaction • Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, and Nikitah Imani, Confronting White Students: The Whiteness of University Spaces

PART IX. CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The American Drug Panic of the 1980’s • Steven R. Donziger, The Real War on Crime: Report of the National Criminal Justice Committee • Kathryn Watterson, Injustices in the Justice System: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? • Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Gang Business: Making Ends Meet

PART X. ILLNESS AND HEALTH CARE
Sven Steinmo and Jon Watts, It’s the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America • Philip J. Hilts, Smoke Screen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up • Steven Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge • Becky W. Thompson, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems

PART XI. THE ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY, AND POPULATION
John Bellamy Foster, “Let Them Eat Pollution”: Capitalism and the World Environment • Richard Potts, Humanity’s Descent: The Consequences of Ecological Instability • Robert Bullard, Environmental Blackmail in Minority Communities • Paul Hawkin, Natural Capitalism



Appendix A: Backstage
Appendix B: Surfing the Internet