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- Title
Celebrating Joan Acker: Sociologist, fearless feminist, friend.
- Authors
Martin, Patricia Yancey
- Abstract
Joan Acker's life reflects a time when middle‐class women were expected to be satisfied with maintaining the home front, serving husbands and children, not having paid‐work careers. After living "the ideal" for 37 years, Acker took a new path by earning a Ph. D. and producing path‐breaking scholarship that challenged taken‐for‐granted beliefs about gender, family, work, and organizations. Acker spoke "truth to power" and was an academic heroine in posing feminist challenges to injustices involving gender, social class, and race/ethnicity, particularly (but not solely) related to the workplace. This overview lets Joan tell her story and offers reflections on her milestone publications as seen by Pat Martin.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGISTS; FEMINISTS; SOCIAL classes; ETHNICITY; GENDER
- Publication
Gender, Work & Organization, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 12, p1679
- ISSN
0968-6673
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/gwao.12236