Allison Gorga
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170949 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Allison Gorga |
| NOMBRES | Allison |
| APELLIDO | Gorga |
| FIRMA | GORGA A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7693-0285 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
“They’re Meant for Men”
Drawing upon 38 interviews with prison staff, administrators, service providers, and volunteers in Iowa, I examined the ways in which prison stakeholders engaged with “evidence-based practices” (EBP). I discovered that many of the stakeholders were both receptive and critical of EBP, and that gendered organizational practices could explain some of this complexity. Gendered hierarchies across the correctional system created valued and devalued sou…
I'm the One With the Degree
Correctional healthcare workers face numerous challenges delivering healthcare to incarcerated patients. This study aims to understand the ways these healthcare workers struggle to assert their medical and clinical independence from custody staff. This study employed a qualitative design, using in-depth interviews with 46 correctional healthcare workers across the United States in 2022. Results indicate that the delivery of correctional healthcar…
Kinda Like a Man and a Woman Thing”
This article examines how a hegemonic gender regime is constructed and maintained by persons with bodies marked as female. Using semistructured interviews with prisoners in a women’s prison, I demonstrate how a gender dichotomy is replicated among a population of primarily women in which certain styles of masculinity and femininity are posited as complimentary and situated within a gender hierarchy. Prisoners cocreated and maintained an ideal def…
Containing pariah femininities
Mimi Schippers (2007) theorizes that hegemonic femininity operates in relation to and support of hegemonic masculinity. According to Schippers, hegemonic femininity is maintained by the containment of pariah femininities, gender non-conforming femininities that may contaminate the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and femininity. We extend Schippers’ theory by analyzing the containment practices that are used to manage pariah femininitie…
Kinda Like a Man and a Woman Thing”
This article examines how a hegemonic gender regime is constructed and maintained by persons with bodies marked as female. Using semistructured interviews with prisoners in a women’s prison, I demonstrate how a gender dichotomy is replicated among a population of primarily women in which certain styles of masculinity and femininity are posited as complimentary and situated within a gender hierarchy. Prisoners cocreated and maintained an ideal def…
Containing pariah femininities
Mimi Schippers (2007) theorizes that hegemonic femininity operates in relation to and support of hegemonic masculinity. According to Schippers, hegemonic femininity is maintained by the containment of pariah femininities, gender non-conforming femininities that may contaminate the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and femininity. We extend Schippers’ theory by analyzing the containment practices that are used to manage pariah femininitie…
Kinda Like a Man and a Woman Thing”
This article examines how a hegemonic gender regime is constructed and maintained by persons with bodies marked as female. Using semistructured interviews with prisoners in a women’s prison, I demonstrate how a gender dichotomy is replicated among a population of primarily women in which certain styles of masculinity and femininity are posited as complimentary and situated within a gender hierarchy. Prisoners cocreated and maintained an ideal def…
“They’re Meant for Men”
Drawing upon 38 interviews with prison staff, administrators, service providers, and volunteers in Iowa, I examined the ways in which prison stakeholders engaged with “evidence-based practices” (EBP). I discovered that many of the stakeholders were both receptive and critical of EBP, and that gendered organizational practices could explain some of this complexity. Gendered hierarchies across the correctional system created valued and devalued sou…
I'm the One With the Degree
Correctional healthcare workers face numerous challenges delivering healthcare to incarcerated patients. This study aims to understand the ways these healthcare workers struggle to assert their medical and clinical independence from custody staff. This study employed a qualitative design, using in-depth interviews with 46 correctional healthcare workers across the United States in 2022. Results indicate that the delivery of correctional healthcar…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Criminology (2 obras) · Femininity (2 obras) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 obras) · Hegemonic masculinity (2 obras) · Hegemony (2 obras) · Masculinity (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras)