Dana M Britton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 135440 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dana M Britton |
| PRENOMES | Dana M |
| SOBRENOME | Britton |
| ASSINATURA | BRITTON D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0601-0555 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 447 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
At Work in the Iron Cage
When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the “Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women are imprisoned is growing faster than that of men. Yet, despite increasing numbers of women prisoners and officers, ideas about prison life and prison w…
Beyond the Chilly Climate
The prevailing metaphor for understanding the persistence of gender inequalities in universities is the 'chilly climate.' Women faculty sometimes resist descriptions of their workplaces as 'chilly' and deny that gender matters even in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary. I draw on interviews with women academics (N=102) to explore this apparent paradox, and I offer a theoretical synthesis that may help explain it. I build on insight…
Dana M. Britton (2007-2011)
Gender & Society started in 1986, the same year that I received my PhD. When I applied to edit the journal in 2004,1 wrote that I saw myself as a beneficiary of the journal, and that I wanted to pass on those benefits to the next generation. I was eager to continue the work of my predecessors by nurturing and encouraging new feminist scholarship and by publishing the best social science research on gender. If I have a legacy, I hope that is it
Criminal Intimacy
Between Life and Death
This study presents an analysis of the population and crimes of women in a state prison for women in Hyderabad, India. Women in India are disproportionately incarcerated for violent crimes, in particular, offenses related to dowry. Using qualitative data gathered from interviews with 49 women, the authors examine the context of their lives and their paths to prison. Ultimately, the authors make a case for an intersectional analysis, one that seek…
Gendered Organizations
In this paper, we explore the context for the emergence of a theory of gendered organizations and define the basic features of the approach, noting the explosion of scholarship in the area and the now firmly established trend toward understanding gender, race, class, and sexuality as aspects of social structures. We focus on three of the most important emerging areas in research on gendered organizations: the study of intersectionality, the incre…
War on the Family
Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas
Policing Women
Making Trouble
Feminism in Criminology
This article assesses the progress of and prospects for feminism in criminology. The focus is on the last 25 years of feminist research and theorizing about women offenders, victims, and workers in the criminal justice system. A general overview is provided of the directions of this scholarship, and key debates between mainstream and feminist perspectives are reviewed. The article also examines the contributions of feminist activists both within …
Response to Baxter and Wright
The glass ceiling is a very popular metaphor among gender scholars. It has become a shorthand expression for describing myriad obstacles that prevent women from being promoted to high positions of authority, prestige, and pay. So it is significant when Gender & Society publishes an article debunking its implicit claims. In their recent article, Janeen Baxter and Erik Olin Wright (2000) argue that metaphor of glass ceiling does accurately depict b…
Gender and Community Policing
The Epistemology of the Gendered Organization
Considerable attention has been paid recently to the gendering of organizations and occupations. Unfortunately, the gendered-organizations approach remains theoretically and empirically underdeveloped, as there have as yet been few clear answers to the question central to the perspective: What does it really mean to say that an organization itself, or a policy, practice, or slot in the hierarchy, is 'gendered'? Reviewing literature in the gendere…
Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market
1. Introduction 2. Profiles of Integrated and Segregated Occupations 3. Occupational Segregation, Social Stratification and the Pay Gap 4. Women with Discontinuous Employment Histories 5. A Differentiated Part-Time Workforce: Marginal Jobs, Half-Time Jobs and Reduced Hours Jobs 6. Working Students 7. Homework and Travel to Work Patterns 8. Small Firms and the Solo Self-Employed 9. The Drug Dealers: A Case Study of Pharmacy, an Integrated Occupati…
Cat Fights and Gang Fights
This article uses Joan Acker's (1990) theory of gendered organizations to frame an analysis of the construction of occupational choice. Utilizing interview data collected from correctional officers (N = 36) working in a men's and a women's state prison, I examine these officers' strong preference for work in the men's prison. Reasons for preferring work with men draw on a comparison of male to female inmates in which the latter are seen as emotio…
Workin' It
Perceptions of the Work Environment Among Correctional Officers
This article examines the relationship between race and sex and perceptions of the work environment among correctional officers. It addresses four central questions: (1) Are there race and sex differences among correctional officers in their perceptions of the work environment? (2) Do characteristics of the job and the institutions in which officers work account for these differences? (3) Do these differences attenuate over time? (4) Are there fa…
Gendered Organizational Logic
This article uses Acker's theory of gendered organizations to frame an analysis of the ways in which policies and practices in a men's and a women's prison reflect and reproduce gendered inequalities. The article offers a working definition of one of Acker's key theoretical concepts, the notion of 'gendered organizational logic.' Then, using interview data collected from correctional officers in a men's and a women's prison, the article examines …
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue
This paper presents a description and analysis of military policy excluding lesbians and gay men. First, we discuss the current policy, review its official rationale, and outline the various criticisms that have been made against it. Next, we suggest an alternative framework for the policy's persistence. Drawing on work in feminist theory, we argue that the military's restrictions on the service of lesbians and gay men reflects an institutional a…
Homophobia and Homosociality
Past research on the subject of homophobia consists of theoretical generalizationl, on its origin or empirical correlations of a multitude of attitudinal and demgraphic variables, with very little synthesis of the two. The present study relates homophobia to the maintenance of powerful sex-segregated institutions. It does so by operationalizing, for the first time, the concept of homosociality, which refers to social preference for members of one…
The Epistemology of the Gendered Organization
Considerable attention has been paid recently to the gendering of organizations and occupations. Unfortunately, the gendered-organizations approach remains theoretically and empirically underdeveloped, as there have as yet been few clear answers to the question central to the perspective: What does it really mean to say that an organization itself, or a policy, practice, or slot in the hierarchy, is 'gendered'? Reviewing literature in the gendere…
Gendered Organizations
In this paper, we explore the context for the emergence of a theory of gendered organizations and define the basic features of the approach, noting the explosion of scholarship in the area and the now firmly established trend toward understanding gender, race, class, and sexuality as aspects of social structures. We focus on three of the most important emerging areas in research on gendered organizations: the study of intersectionality, the incre…
Beyond the Chilly Climate
The prevailing metaphor for understanding the persistence of gender inequalities in universities is the 'chilly climate.' Women faculty sometimes resist descriptions of their workplaces as 'chilly' and deny that gender matters even in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary. I draw on interviews with women academics (N=102) to explore this apparent paradox, and I offer a theoretical synthesis that may help explain it. I build on insight…
Gendered Organizational Logic
This article uses Acker's theory of gendered organizations to frame an analysis of the ways in which policies and practices in a men's and a women's prison reflect and reproduce gendered inequalities. The article offers a working definition of one of Acker's key theoretical concepts, the notion of 'gendered organizational logic.' Then, using interview data collected from correctional officers in a men's and a women's prison, the article examines …
Perceptions of the Work Environment Among Correctional Officers
This article examines the relationship between race and sex and perceptions of the work environment among correctional officers. It addresses four central questions: (1) Are there race and sex differences among correctional officers in their perceptions of the work environment? (2) Do characteristics of the job and the institutions in which officers work account for these differences? (3) Do these differences attenuate over time? (4) Are there fa…
Feminism in Criminology
This article assesses the progress of and prospects for feminism in criminology. The focus is on the last 25 years of feminist research and theorizing about women offenders, victims, and workers in the criminal justice system. A general overview is provided of the directions of this scholarship, and key debates between mainstream and feminist perspectives are reviewed. The article also examines the contributions of feminist activists both within …
Homophobia and Homosociality
Past research on the subject of homophobia consists of theoretical generalizationl, on its origin or empirical correlations of a multitude of attitudinal and demgraphic variables, with very little synthesis of the two. The present study relates homophobia to the maintenance of powerful sex-segregated institutions. It does so by operationalizing, for the first time, the concept of homosociality, which refers to social preference for members of one…
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue
This paper presents a description and analysis of military policy excluding lesbians and gay men. First, we discuss the current policy, review its official rationale, and outline the various criticisms that have been made against it. Next, we suggest an alternative framework for the policy's persistence. Drawing on work in feminist theory, we argue that the military's restrictions on the service of lesbians and gay men reflects an institutional a…
Cat Fights and Gang Fights
This article uses Joan Acker's (1990) theory of gendered organizations to frame an analysis of the construction of occupational choice. Utilizing interview data collected from correctional officers (N = 36) working in a men's and a women's state prison, I examine these officers' strong preference for work in the men's prison. Reasons for preferring work with men draw on a comparison of male to female inmates in which the latter are seen as emotio…
War on the Family
Between Life and Death
This study presents an analysis of the population and crimes of women in a state prison for women in Hyderabad, India. Women in India are disproportionately incarcerated for violent crimes, in particular, offenses related to dowry. Using qualitative data gathered from interviews with 49 women, the authors examine the context of their lives and their paths to prison. Ultimately, the authors make a case for an intersectional analysis, one that seek…
Response to Baxter and Wright
The glass ceiling is a very popular metaphor among gender scholars. It has become a shorthand expression for describing myriad obstacles that prevent women from being promoted to high positions of authority, prestige, and pay. So it is significant when Gender & Society publishes an article debunking its implicit claims. In their recent article, Janeen Baxter and Erik Olin Wright (2000) argue that metaphor of glass ceiling does accurately depict b…
Homophobia and Homosociality
Past research on the subject of homophobia consists of theoretical generalizationl, on its origin or empirical correlations of a multitude of attitudinal and demgraphic variables, with very little synthesis of the two. The present study relates homophobia to the maintenance of powerful sex-segregated institutions. It does so by operationalizing, for the first time, the concept of homosociality, which refers to social preference for members of one…
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue
This paper presents a description and analysis of military policy excluding lesbians and gay men. First, we discuss the current policy, review its official rationale, and outline the various criticisms that have been made against it. Next, we suggest an alternative framework for the policy's persistence. Drawing on work in feminist theory, we argue that the military's restrictions on the service of lesbians and gay men reflects an institutional a…
Perceptions of the Work Environment Among Correctional Officers
This article examines the relationship between race and sex and perceptions of the work environment among correctional officers. It addresses four central questions: (1) Are there race and sex differences among correctional officers in their perceptions of the work environment? (2) Do characteristics of the job and the institutions in which officers work account for these differences? (3) Do these differences attenuate over time? (4) Are there fa…
Gendered Organizational Logic
This article uses Acker's theory of gendered organizations to frame an analysis of the ways in which policies and practices in a men's and a women's prison reflect and reproduce gendered inequalities. The article offers a working definition of one of Acker's key theoretical concepts, the notion of 'gendered organizational logic.' Then, using interview data collected from correctional officers in a men's and a women's prison, the article examines …
Workin' It
Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market
1. Introduction 2. Profiles of Integrated and Segregated Occupations 3. Occupational Segregation, Social Stratification and the Pay Gap 4. Women with Discontinuous Employment Histories 5. A Differentiated Part-Time Workforce: Marginal Jobs, Half-Time Jobs and Reduced Hours Jobs 6. Working Students 7. Homework and Travel to Work Patterns 8. Small Firms and the Solo Self-Employed 9. The Drug Dealers: A Case Study of Pharmacy, an Integrated Occupati…
Cat Fights and Gang Fights
This article uses Joan Acker's (1990) theory of gendered organizations to frame an analysis of the construction of occupational choice. Utilizing interview data collected from correctional officers (N = 36) working in a men's and a women's state prison, I examine these officers' strong preference for work in the men's prison. Reasons for preferring work with men draw on a comparison of male to female inmates in which the latter are seen as emotio…
Policing Women
Making Trouble
Feminism in Criminology
This article assesses the progress of and prospects for feminism in criminology. The focus is on the last 25 years of feminist research and theorizing about women offenders, victims, and workers in the criminal justice system. A general overview is provided of the directions of this scholarship, and key debates between mainstream and feminist perspectives are reviewed. The article also examines the contributions of feminist activists both within …
Response to Baxter and Wright
The glass ceiling is a very popular metaphor among gender scholars. It has become a shorthand expression for describing myriad obstacles that prevent women from being promoted to high positions of authority, prestige, and pay. So it is significant when Gender & Society publishes an article debunking its implicit claims. In their recent article, Janeen Baxter and Erik Olin Wright (2000) argue that metaphor of glass ceiling does accurately depict b…
Gender and Community Policing
The Epistemology of the Gendered Organization
Considerable attention has been paid recently to the gendering of organizations and occupations. Unfortunately, the gendered-organizations approach remains theoretically and empirically underdeveloped, as there have as yet been few clear answers to the question central to the perspective: What does it really mean to say that an organization itself, or a policy, practice, or slot in the hierarchy, is 'gendered'? Reviewing literature in the gendere…
Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas
War on the Family
Gendered Organizations
In this paper, we explore the context for the emergence of a theory of gendered organizations and define the basic features of the approach, noting the explosion of scholarship in the area and the now firmly established trend toward understanding gender, race, class, and sexuality as aspects of social structures. We focus on three of the most important emerging areas in research on gendered organizations: the study of intersectionality, the incre…
Between Life and Death
This study presents an analysis of the population and crimes of women in a state prison for women in Hyderabad, India. Women in India are disproportionately incarcerated for violent crimes, in particular, offenses related to dowry. Using qualitative data gathered from interviews with 49 women, the authors examine the context of their lives and their paths to prison. Ultimately, the authors make a case for an intersectional analysis, one that seek…
Criminal Intimacy
Dana M. Britton (2007-2011)
Gender & Society started in 1986, the same year that I received my PhD. When I applied to edit the journal in 2004,1 wrote that I saw myself as a beneficiary of the journal, and that I wanted to pass on those benefits to the next generation. I was eager to continue the work of my predecessors by nurturing and encouraging new feminist scholarship and by publishing the best social science research on gender. If I have a legacy, I hope that is it
Beyond the Chilly Climate
The prevailing metaphor for understanding the persistence of gender inequalities in universities is the 'chilly climate.' Women faculty sometimes resist descriptions of their workplaces as 'chilly' and deny that gender matters even in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary. I draw on interviews with women academics (N=102) to explore this apparent paradox, and I offer a theoretical synthesis that may help explain it. I build on insight…
At Work in the Iron Cage
When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the “Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women are imprisoned is growing faster than that of men. Yet, despite increasing numbers of women prisoners and officers, ideas about prison life and prison w…
Sociology (20 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Gender Studies (15 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Criminology (12 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Prison (7 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 obras) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (6 obras)