Celebrating Joan Acker
Sociologist, fearless feminist, friend
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12309793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Yancey Martin (Department of Sociology Florida State University Florida USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1679-1687 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Work and Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-6673 • E-ISSN: 1468-0432 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gwao.12236 |
| OpenAlex | W2802611321 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
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
Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Middle class · Milestone · Political science · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |