Connecting the gendered door
Women, Violence and Doorwork
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dick Hobbs (London School of Economics and Political Science), Kate O’brien (0009-0008-4398-4982, University of Kent), Kate O''Brien, Kate O'Brien, Louise Westmarland (0000-0001-9074-2582, The Open University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-38 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2007.00137.x |
| PMID | 17343636 |
| OpenAlex | W2065860976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 51 |
This paper explores the emerging role of women who work as 'bouncers', or doorstaff, in the night-time economy and examines how the cultural capital of the female bouncer is connected to the methods utilized to control licensed premises. It is drawn from a study that combined ethnographic observations and interviews in five major UK cities which explored a diverse range of issues such as gendered bodies, femininities and violence; the changing needs of the night-time economy in the UK and the experiences of women engaged in 'non-traditional' occupations. In this paper, we draw on interview data with one particular category of female door staff; women who share similar histories of exposure to violence and violent cultures, and we examine how their experiential knowledge of violence equips them with the resources to 'work the doors'. Our attention focuses on this group of women, who we refer to as 'The Connected', and examine how they are 'doing gender' when they negotiate violence 'on the door
Domestic violence · Ethnography · Experiential learning · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Poison control · Sex work · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Studies · Night-time city culture · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Let the People In
The female bodybuilder as a gender outlaw
Fear and safety for women and girls in the night-time economy
From violent to vulnerable? How door staff police illicit drugs in the United Kingdom’s night-time economy
“It Happens All the Time”
Bouncer service work
The gendered trouble with alcohol
Reconfiguring the violent encounter? Preloading, security staff and breathalyser use in the night-time economy
Drugs, Clubs and Young People
The Impact of the Private Security Industry Regulation Act and other Legislative Frameworks on Private Securities Operating in Drinking Establishments in South Africa
Street talk and Bourdieusian criminology
Smashing Backdoors in and the Wandering Eye
Me Getting Plastered and Her Provoking My Eyes”
The everyday world of bouncers
Beyond door policies
When Women Do Not Want It
Mandatory Identification Bar Checks
Violence, abuse and the implications for mental health and wellbeing of security operatives in the United Kingdom
Femininity work
Heroes and Matriarchs’
Interfaces of domestic violence and organization
Whose Responsibility? The Role of Bouncers in Policing the Public Spaces of Nightlife Districts
Methods of Entering Where Access is Restricted
Yes, I Do but Not with You”
From Threat To Promise
Being on both sides
Nocturnal policing
Keeping streets safe at night
Les fêtes
Neoliberal Subjectivities and the Development of the Night-Time Economy in British Cities
Interpreting qualitative data
One of the Guys
Current controversies on family violence
Code of the street
Little big men
Real Knockouts
Urban Nightscapes
Streetwise
Danger on the doors
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
Capital Culture
Crime as Structured Action
Sexed Work
The Managed Heart
'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight!' Aggression Among Young Males in Bars--A Question of Values
'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight!' Aggression Among Young Males in Bars--A Question of Values
Play space
The strengths and limits of ‘doing gender’ for understanding street crime
Women Who Drink and Fight
Patriarchy and pub culture
The toilet paper
Female Gangs in America
Badfellas
Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
Up It Up
Andean Indian Village 1
A Top Night
Accomplishing Femininity Among the Girls in the Gang
Class, Self and Culture
Regulating 'unruly' bodies
Pugs at Work
Darts, Drink and the Pub
Hard Men, Shop Boys and Others
Thinking Feminism with and against Bourdieu
Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space
Barmaids
In Other Words
Hard' Women and 'Soft' Women
Doing Difference
Doing Gender
Ladies, Flirts, and Tomboys
Gender on a Jagged Edge
Tough Enough and Woman Enough
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,58 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |