Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative in-depth interviews, Christine Williams argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations-male nurses and female marines for example-are entirely unfounded. This new perspective helps to account for the stubborn resilience of occupational stratification in the face of affirmative action and other anti-discrimination policies.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Williams [has] done us a service by urging us to look more closely at the complex forms of identity that emerge on both sides of the sexual divide and at the interplay between them." * Women's Review of Books * "A significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on occupational sex segregation." * Social Forces *
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 143 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-520-06373-0 (9780520063730)
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Christine L. Williams is Professor of Sociology and the Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, Austin, and is coeditor, with Jeffrey Alexander and Gary Marx, of Self, Structure, and Beliefs (California, 2004), and the author of Still a Man's World (California, 1995) and Inside Toyland (California, 2006).
Foreword by Neil J. Smelser
Acknowledgments
I. INTRODUCTION
2. INTEGRATING THE MARINE CORPS AND NURSING
3. FEMININITY IN THE MARINE CORPS
4? MASCULINITY IN NURSING
5. FEMALE MARINES AND MALE NURSES
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
