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Women guarding men / Lynn E. Zimmer ; foreword by James B. Jacobs.
LIBRA HV9470 .Z56 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimmer, Lynn Etta.
- Series:
- Studies in crime and justice
- Studies in crime and justice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--Officials and employees--United States.
- Prisons.
- Prisons--Officials and employees.
- Women correctional personnel.
- United States.
- Women correctional personnel--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 264 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- The hiring of women as guards in men's prisons represents a major breakthrough in women's efforts to achieve full sexual equality in the workplace. This dramatic social change has required great flexibility on the part of the women guards as well as substantial adjustments by their male counterparts, prison administrators, and the inmates themselves. In the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, Lynn Zimmer examines the experiences of the women and men involved in the painful process of transition from a segregated to an integrated prison environment. Women Guarding Men is significant not only for its vivid depiction of their trials, but for its contribution to a general theory of women's occupational and organizational behavior.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 239-259.
- ISBN:
- 0226983390
- OCLC:
- 12974268
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