The hiring of women as guards in men's prisons represents a major breakthrough in women's efforts to achieve full sexual equality in the workplace. This dramatic social change has required great flexibility on the part of the women guards as well as substantial adjustments by their male counterparts, prison administrators, and the inmates themselves. In the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, Lynn Zimmer examines the experiences of the women and men involved in the painful process of transition from a segregated to an integrated prison environment. Women Guarding Men is significant not only for its vivid depiction of their trials, but for its contribution to a general theory of women's occupational and organizational behavior.
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Lynn Zimmer is assistant professor of sociology, State University of New York at Geneseo.
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Before 1972, the practice of hiring only men to guard male inmates in the nation's prisons was unquestioned and unchallenged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most male guards, many female guards, prison guard subculture, job performance strategies, inmate privacy, direct contact with inmates, few female guards, many male guards, inventive role, inmate compliance, one female guard, miscellaneous status, female prison guards, criminal justice jobs, noncontact positions, sexual integration, prison employment, modified role, inmate attack, prison emergencies, inmate contact, male facility, prison administrators, occupational behavior, seniority grievances Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Before 1972, the practice of hiring only men to guard male inmates in the nation's prisons was unquestioned and unchallenged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most male guards, many female guards, prison guard subculture, job performance strategies, inmate privacy, direct contact with inmates, few female guards, many male guards, inventive role, inmate compliance, one female guard, miscellaneous status, female prison guards, criminal justice jobs, noncontact positions, sexual integration, prison employment, modified role, inmate attack, prison emergencies, inmate contact, male facility, prison administrators, occupational behavior, seniority grievances Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rhode Island, Supreme Court, James Jacobs, Rosabeth Kanter, Gresham Sykes, Merit Systems Protection Board, Susan Martin, Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Rights Act, Equal Rights Amendment, John Irwin, Leo Carroll, Review Committee, Thomas Murton New!
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- Social Problems (8th Edition) by James William Coleman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Prison: Studies in Institutional Organization and Change by Donald Ray, Ed. Cressey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Problems by Henry George in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition by Rosabeth Moss Kanter on page 192, and Back Matter
- Women in the Workplace by Phyllis A. Wallace in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (California Series in Public Anthropology) by Lorna A. Rhodes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Management of Correctional Institutions (Current Issues in Criminal Justice) by Marilyn D. McShane on page 93, and page 296
- Women in Public and Private Law Enforcement by Pamela A. Collins Professor and Chair of Loss Prevention and Safety Department Eastern Kentucky University Ed.D Education - University of Kentucky M.S. Loss Prevention Adminstration - Eastern Kentucky University in Back Matter
- Women in Control?: The Role of Women in Law Enforcement (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Frances Heidensohn in Back Matter
- Criminology: A Reader by Yvonne Jewkes on page 16
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