ISBN:
0226738051
,
0226738078
,
9780226738055
,
9780226738079
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 216 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Just One of the Guys? : Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
DDC:
306.768
Keywords:
Transgender people Employment
;
Sex discrimination in employment
;
Transgender people -- Employment
Abstract:
The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious and unconscious biases that guide hiring and promotion decisions. Just One of the Guys? sheds new light on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men-people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male-on the job.Kristen Schilt draws on in-depth interviews and observational data to show that while individual
Description / Table of Contents:
Framing transgender difference: pathology, diversity, biologySelf-made men: culturally navigating 'natural' difference -- Becoming men at work: the unequal outcomes of difference -- Manufacturing gender inequality: workplace responses to stealth transmen -- Business as usual: workplace responses to open transmen -- Transgender matters: the persistence of workplace gender inequality -- Same as it ever was? inequality, reproduction, and transformation.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-210) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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