Policing Women’s Bodies: Pregnancy, Embodiment, and Gender Relations in Canadian Police Work
| Autor: | Julie Gouweloos, Debra Langan, Carrie B. Sanders |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Pregnancy
Gender relations 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Face (sociological concept) Gender studies 16. Peace & justice medicine.disease Gender Studies 5. Gender equality Work (electrical) 050903 gender studies medicine Center (algebra and category theory) Sociology 0509 other social sciences Law Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Feminist Criminology. 14:466-487 |
| ISSN: | 1557-086X 1557-0851 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1557085118763083 |
| Popis: | Despite the influx of women in policing, women continue to face barriers to their full inclusion. In this article, we put women’s bodies at the center of our analysis by theorizing how pregnancy shapes the gendered interactions and experiences of women police at work. Through in-depth, qualitative interviews with 52 Canadian officers, we find that pregnancy frames women’s bodies “out of order” for “police work” and positions women even further from the ideal police body, which is ostensibly male. In response, women engage in myriad strategies to reassert their value as officers, strategies that require women to do additional labor. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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