Joan Acker

Joan Elise Robinson Acker[1] (March 18, 1924 – June 22, 2016) was an American sociologist, researcher, writer and educator. She was a part of the University of Oregon faculty starting in 1967.[2] Acker is considered one of the leading analysts regarding gender and class within the second wave of feminism.[3]

Joan Acker
Born
Joan Elise Robinson

(1924-03-18)March 18, 1924
Illinois, United States
DiedJune 22, 2016(2016-06-22) (aged 92)
NationalityAmerican
Spouse(s)
Martin Acker
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(m. 1948; div. 1967)​
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oregon
Academic work
Main interestsFeminism, race, class, gender

Education

Acker was born in Illinois in 1924.[4] She received her bachelors from Hunter College, her master's from the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.[5]

Career

Acker is best known for her theories on the relationship between race, class, and gender. She discusses this relationship in several of her publications, including her 2006 book Class Questions: Feminist Answers.[6] Acker describes the need to think about race, class, and gender not as separate entities but as "intersecting systems of oppression."[7] In 1973, Acker founded the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. She successfully helped to raise pay wages for low-wage jobs in Oregon while serving on a state task force from 1981-1983.[5] She received the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1993.[8] In 1989, Acker was also awarded the Jessie Bernard Award for feminist scholarship.[9]

Later life and legacy

She died on June 22, 2016 at the age of 92.[10]

Bibliography

Books
  • Acker, Joan; et al. (1980). Research in the interweave of social roles. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, Inc. ISBN 9780892321919.
  • Acker, Joan (1989). Doing comparable worth: gender, class, and pay equity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 9780877226215.
  • Acker, Joan (2006). Class questions: feminist answers. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780742546301.
  • Acker, Joan; Morgen, Sandra; Weigt, Jill (2010). Stretched thin poor families, welfare work, and welfare reform. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801475108.

Chapters in books
  • Acker, Joan (2006), "Women and social stratification: a case of intellectual sexism", in Levine, Rhonda (ed.), Social class and stratification: classic statements and theoretical debates (2nd ed.), Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 171–182, ISBN 9780742546325

References
  1. "Acker, Joan". Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 January 2015. (Joan Elise Robinson Acker) vita (b. 1924)
  2. "Joan Acker | Department of Sociology". sociology.uoregon.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  3. Feminism, John Bellamy Foster Topics (June 2012). "Joan Acker's Feminist Historical-Materialist Theory of Class". Monthly Review. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  4. Kay, Ernest; Butcher, Diane (1989). International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women. ISBN 9780900332982.
  5. Barbara J. Love (2006). Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
  6. Williams, Christine (April 2007). "Class Questions, Feminist Answers". Gender & Society. 21 (2): 302–304. doi:10.1177/0891243206295784. S2CID 144705375.
  7. Anderson, Margaret (May 2007). "Class Questions: Feminist Answers". Contemporary Sociology. 36 (3): 234–235. doi:10.1177/009430610703600314. S2CID 144801987.
  8. "American Sociological Association: W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award". www.asanet.org. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  9. "American Sociological Association: Jessie Bernard Award". www.asanet.org. 2009-05-29. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  10. "In Memory of Joan Acker: 1924 – 2016". Retrieved 23 June 2016.
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