You Look Like a Dude, Dude

Masculine Females Undoing Gender in the Workplace

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3649848
AutoresR Dozier (0000-0002-7661-8726, Western Washington University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume66
Fascículo9
Páginas1219-1237
Data de publicação2019-07-29
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2018.1500778
PMID30052169
OpenAlexW2883960737
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas35

Interviews with 49 masculine females from diverse identities and occupations suggest that their workplace interactions undo gender, that is, breach rather than revise gender parameters. In this study, participants reveal that, although they were acknowledged as women in the workplace, their treatment was often more similar to men. Their classification as "like men" sometimes accrued advantage such as male camaraderie, access to information and opportunities, and greater assumed competence relative to gender-conforming women. Participants' interactions with coworkers, supervisors, and customers suggest that, rather than a pariah femininity, masculine females may more accurately be described as a subordinate masculinity. Interactions that classify masculine females as predominantly masculine or "like men" denaturalize gender. By visibly countering gender's anatomical basis and the notion of coherent gendered selves, masculine females might, in one small way, undo gender

Androgyny · Doing gender · Femininity · Gender identity · Masculinity · Pariah group · Political science · Sociology · Undo · Undoing · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges