| Sumario: | The writers consider explicitly the relationships among gender, race, and class and reconceptualize “difference” as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. They summarize the prevailing critique of much feminist thought as severely restricted by its white middle-class character and preoccupation and consider how feminist scholarship finds itself using mathematical metaphors to describe the above relationships. They explore the manner in which existing conceptualizations of gender have added to the problem, making mathematical metaphors the only alternatives. The writers call on their previous ethnomethodological conceptualization of gender to develop the further implications of this perspective for the comprehension of race and class. They argue that although gender, race, and class display very different descriptive attributes and outcomes, they are comparable as mechanisms for producing social inequality.
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