Gender Differences at Work
Women and Men in Non-traditional Occupations
Christine L. Williams(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 3. January 1989
Book
Hardback
206 pages
978-0-520-06373-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 143 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-06373-0 (9780520063730)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
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).
Content
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
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