Gender Differences at Work: Women and Men in Non-traditional Occupations - Softcover

Williams, Christine L. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520074254 ISBN 13: 9780520074255

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Synopsis

Gender Differences at Work Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative interviews, this title argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are entirely unfounded.

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Review:

"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."--Alice Kessler-Harris, "The Women's Review of Books

From the Back Cover:

"Williams' cleverly conceived study . . . makes for completely fascinating reading. This creative and original research demonstrates for us that the maintenanace and reproduction of gender identity is very different for men and for women and that it is different when men enter a female professional preserve and when women enter one that has been both male and masculine. A wonderful book!"--Nancy Chodorow, author of "The Reproduction of Mothering

"In this fascinating book, Christine Williams demonstrates that a sociology informed by psychoanalysis can give us important insights into the nature of our society and culture, especially in regard to the ambiguous and ambivalent attitudes that define our gender relations."--Eli Sagan, author of "Freud, Women, and Morality

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0520074254
• ISBN 13: 9780520074255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212