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Celebrating Joan Acker: Sociologist, fearless feminist, friend

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  • Patricia Yancey Martin

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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.

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  • Patricia Yancey Martin, 2019. "Celebrating Joan Acker: Sociologist, fearless feminist, friend," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(12), pages 1679-1687, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:26:y:2019:i:12:p:1679-1687
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12236
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