Tamika Alana Perrott
Biographic Data
| ID | 4217447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamika Alana Perrott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamika Alana |
| FAMILY NAME | Perrott |
| SIGNATURE | PERROTT T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5356-7519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Doing hot and ‘dirty’ work
Within industrial societies, firefighters are often sexualized, celebrated and elevated as respectable working‐class heroes. Drawing from fieldwork and interviews with 33 men currently employed in an Australian metropolitan fire service, I explore the making of masculinities across four stations. Utilizing Beverly Skeggs’ social exchange theory and Mary Douglas’ theory of risk and analysis of pollution, this article argues that men attempt to con…
Methodological Awareness in Feminist Research
This article extends contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, and power by exploring how power relations play out through the researcher-researched relationship in male-dominated workplaces. Drawing on short-term ethnography, this article discusses the utility of analyzing the researcher's embodied field in feminist research and advances our knowledge of body politics through the exploration of workplace performances. Specifically, it draws upo…
Beyond 'Token' Firefighters
Despite the increasing percentage of women entering masculinized workplaces, certain organizations consistently see little change in the gender makeup of their staff. Contemporary scholarship suggests that women in rigidly gendered organizations are often assigned a token status and are victimized due to their gender. This study relocates the conversations of women as tokens towards a fresh conversation of women's agency in masculinized workplace…
Doing hot and ‘dirty’ work
Within industrial societies, firefighters are often sexualized, celebrated and elevated as respectable working‐class heroes. Drawing from fieldwork and interviews with 33 men currently employed in an Australian metropolitan fire service, I explore the making of masculinities across four stations. Utilizing Beverly Skeggs’ social exchange theory and Mary Douglas’ theory of risk and analysis of pollution, this article argues that men attempt to con…
Methodological Awareness in Feminist Research
This article extends contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, and power by exploring how power relations play out through the researcher-researched relationship in male-dominated workplaces. Drawing on short-term ethnography, this article discusses the utility of analyzing the researcher's embodied field in feminist research and advances our knowledge of body politics through the exploration of workplace performances. Specifically, it draws upo…
Beyond 'Token' Firefighters
Despite the increasing percentage of women entering masculinized workplaces, certain organizations consistently see little change in the gender makeup of their staff. Contemporary scholarship suggests that women in rigidly gendered organizations are often assigned a token status and are victimized due to their gender. This study relocates the conversations of women as tokens towards a fresh conversation of women's agency in masculinized workplace…
Beyond 'Token' Firefighters
Despite the increasing percentage of women entering masculinized workplaces, certain organizations consistently see little change in the gender makeup of their staff. Contemporary scholarship suggests that women in rigidly gendered organizations are often assigned a token status and are victimized due to their gender. This study relocates the conversations of women as tokens towards a fresh conversation of women's agency in masculinized workplace…
Doing hot and ‘dirty’ work
Within industrial societies, firefighters are often sexualized, celebrated and elevated as respectable working‐class heroes. Drawing from fieldwork and interviews with 33 men currently employed in an Australian metropolitan fire service, I explore the making of masculinities across four stations. Utilizing Beverly Skeggs’ social exchange theory and Mary Douglas’ theory of risk and analysis of pollution, this article argues that men attempt to con…
Methodological Awareness in Feminist Research
This article extends contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, and power by exploring how power relations play out through the researcher-researched relationship in male-dominated workplaces. Drawing on short-term ethnography, this article discusses the utility of analyzing the researcher's embodied field in feminist research and advances our knowledge of body politics through the exploration of workplace performances. Specifically, it draws upo…
Sociology (3 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Reflexivity (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)