Doing Gender as Resistance

Waitresses and Servers in Contemporary Table Service

Bibliographic Data

ID2365249
AuthorsChauntelle Anne Tibbals (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume36
Issue6
Pages731-751
Publication date2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241607303508
OpenAlexW2102586396
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited12

This article examines the different ways in which "waitresses" in a traditional restaurant setting and "servers" in a routinized and standardized corporate restaurant setting "do gender" in the workplace. Whereas waitresses are permitted interpretative use of gender in the workplace, the goals and ideologies of the corporate restaurant limit servers' use of gender in the workplace. My findings suggest that normatively accepted versions of gender can be done as a method of resistance, rather than conformity, in standardized and routinized workplace settings. These conclusions are informed by ethnographic research conducted over twenty-two months in two different Los Angeles area restaurants

Conformity · Ethnography · Ideology · Participant observation · Political science · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology · Wine Industry and Tourism · Ecology

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