Doing justice, doing gender
Subtitle: women in legal and criminal justice occupations
By: Susan Ehrlich Martin, Nancy C. Jurik.
Contributors: Jurik, Nancy C.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781412927208; 9781412927215
Subjects: Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Policewomen -- United States; Women correctional personnel -- United States; Women lawyers -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : changes in criminal justice, occupations, and women in the workplace; title: The CJS : mission, processes, and workforce; title: Historical context of women in justice occupations; title: Legal changes; title: Equal employment opportunity law; title: Sexual harassment law; title: Pregnancy and family leave; title: Systemic reforms and expanded opportunities for women; title: Women and today's justice occupations; title: Contents of the second edition of this book; title: A note on perspective and terminology; title: Endnotes; title: 2. Explanations for gender inequality in the workplace; title: Categorical approaches to gender inequality at work; title: Women and men as essentially the same : gender roles and gender-neutral organizations; title: Equality as sameness; title: Men and women as different : equality as difference; title: Calls for radical economic and cultural change; title: Challenging gender dichotomies : gender as process; title: Our approach : the social construction of gender in the workplace; title: Doing gender : gender as a routine interactional accomplishment; title: Gender as structured interaction; title: Doing gender in work organizations; title: Links between the family and the workplace; title: The gendered state; title: Gendered labor markets; title: Gendered work organizations; title: Division of labor in work organizations; title: Culture and sexuality in work organizations; title: Workplace interactions and identities; title: Gendered organizational logic; title: Summary; title: Endnotes; title: 3. The nature of police work and women's entry into law enforcement; title: An historical overview : from matron to chief; title: Preliminary phase : 1840-1910; title: The specialist phase : 1910 to 1972; title: From "policewoman" to chief : changes since 1972; title: Police crisis of the 1960s; title: The women's movement; title: Legal changes : legislation and judicial interpretation; title: The impact of research; title: The increasing representation of women in police work; title: The nature of policing : scope of work and occupational culture; title: Nature of the work; title: The police officer's "working personality"; title: Occupational culture; title: Recent trends in policing and their implications for women and persons of color; title: Community-oriented policing; title: Terrorism and other disasters; title: Civilianization and privatization; title: The police culture and men's opposition to women officers; title: The logic of sexism and women's threat to police work; title: Women's threat to the public image and citizen "respect"; title: Women's threat to group solidarity and men's identity; title: Barriers to women officers : interaction, ideology, and images; title: Interactional dilemmas; title: The sexualized workplace; title: The intersections of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender; title: Summary; title: Endnotes; title: 4. Women officers encountering the gendered police organization; title: Gendered organizational logic : policies and practices; title: Gender and selection; title: Gender and training; title: The training academy; title: Field training and patrol : cycles of success and failure; title: Gendered assignment patterns; title: Performance evaluations; title: Gendered organizational logic and women's occupational mobility; title: Moving up : women and promotion; title: Family-related policies and practices; title: Uniforms and appearance : formalizing gendered images; title: Doing gender on the street : dilemmas of police-citizen encounters; title: Gender and police work; title: Doing gender in patrol work; title: Using gender; title: Women's response : adaptations, costs, and survival strategies; title: Attitudes toward police work and on-the-job behavior; title: Police work, discrimination, and stress; title: Turnover : adapting by leaving; title: Coping strategies, adaptations, and work styles; title: Meshing personal and occupational lives; title: Summary; title: Endnotes; title: 5. Women entering the legal profession : change and resistance; title: Historical overview : barriers to women in law before 1970; title: Changing laws and job queues : opening legal practice to women; title: Changing labor queues and demographics in the legal profession; title: Changes in the type and nature of legal employment; title: The changing legal environment; title: Women lawyers using the new laws; title: Challenging discriminatory practices : gender bias task forces; title: Lawyers' jobs, specialties, and the division of legal labor; title: The organization and work of lawyers; title: Private law practice; title: In-house counsel and corporate law; title: Women and men in government work; title: The judiciary; title: Law school teaching; title: Gendered legal occupational culture and barriers to women; title: Summary; title: Endnotes; title: 6. The organizational logic of the gendered legal world and women lawyers' responses; title: Gender bias in law school and its impact on the learning environment; title: Gender bias in the firm, office, and agency; title: Partnership and gender; title: Gender differences in income; title: Other gender differences in practice; title: The impact of gender bias on women attorneys in court and beyond; title: Sexual harassment; title: Undermining women lawyers' credibility in the courtroom; title: Men's perceptions of gender bias; title: Organizational logic and limiting opportunity structures; title: Organizational logic, gendered job recruitment, and the hiring process; title: Gender barriers to a judgeship; title: Barriers to law school tenure; title: Women's responses to gender bias : adaptation and innovation; title: Women's bar associations and gender bias task forces; title: Feminist jurisprudence and legal action; title: The time crunch : meshing work and family life; title: Marriage and children; title: Reshaping the profession : work-family balance and quality of life; title: Summary; title: Endnotes; title: 7. Women in corrections : advancement and resistance; title: History of women in corrections : 1860s to 1960s; title: Social change and changing queues for women COs in the 1970s; title: Socio-legal changes and women COs; title: Inmate suits and pressures for prison reform; title: Prison reform ethos and changing labor and job queues for women COs; title: Inmate rights to privacy and equal work opportunities; title: Women's movement into CO jobs in men's prisons : 1970s to present; title: Characteristics of women COs in men's prisons; title: CO jobs as a resource for doing gender; title: The nature of work in corrections; title: CO work cultures and masculinity; title: Sites of struggle : gendered interactions, gendered identities; title: Men inmates and women COs; title: Men coworker, supervisor, and subordinate resistance; title: Sexual harassment and women COs; title: Resistance from women coworkers, family, and friends; title: Proponents of women COs : alternative gendered identities; title: Summary; title: 8. Gendered organizational logic and women CO response; title: Gendered, racialized, sexualized, and embodied prison organizations; title: Racialized prisons; title: Prisons as gendered; title: Prisons as sexualized; title: Sexual harassment policies and the gendered organization; title: Corrections as embodied work and women as embodied workers; title: Promoting equality in prison organizations : a case example; title: Social context and the shifting organizational logic of corrections; title: Conflicting correctional organizational directives; title: Inadequate implementation of human service and affirmative action reforms; title: Prison organizational logic and women's careers; title: Preemployment experience and training; title: Work assignments; title: Performance evaluations and promotions; title: Women's performance : adaptation and innovations; title: Work-related attitudes; title: Job performance; title: Work styles : adaptation and innovations; title: The costs : stress and turnover; title: Organizational movements for change; title: Summary; title: 9. Doing justice, doing gender today and tomorrow : occupations, organizations, and change; title: Our theoretical approach : a recap; title: Comparison of opportunities, barriers, and women's responses; title: Similarities in women's opportunities and barriers; title: Differences in opportunities, barriers, and responses; title: Do women make a difference?; title: Women's responses to barriers; title: Gender, job perspectives, and performance in justice occupations; title: Women's collective responses; title: Women's contribution and the future; title: Building feminist theory and policy.