Women Guarding Men

by Lynn Zimmer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226983394
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/22/1986
Series:	Studies in Crime and Justice
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lynn Zimmer is assistant professor of sociology, State University of New York at Geneseo.

Table of Contents

Foreword by James B. Jacobs
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Setting: The American Prison
3. Becoming a Guard
4. Individual and Institutional Reaction to Women in the Guard Force
5. Female Guards on the Job: Coping with Discrimination and Overcoming Obstacles
6. How Female Guards Adapt to the Job
7. Impact of Women on the Prison
8. The Future of Women in Corrections
9. Building a Theory of Women's Occupational Experiences
Appendix: Research Methodology
Notes
References
Index