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Gender & Society, Vol. 9, No. 1, 8-37 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/089124395009001002
© 1995 Sociologists for Women in Society

DOING DIFFERENCE

CANDACE WEST

University of California, Santa Cruz

SARAH FENSTERMAKER

University of California, Santa Barbara

In this article, we advance a new understanding of "difference" as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social inequality.


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