TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Doing, redoing, and undoing gender: variation in gender identities of women working as police officers
JO  - Feminist criminology
A1  - Morash, Merry
A1  - Haarr, Robin N.
SP  - 3
EP  - 23
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
N2  - For a study of police women's identities, qualitative data were generated from in-depth interviews with 21 women working in two metropolitan police departments and varying in race, ethnicity, rank, and tenure. Most women identified female-male differences but noted exceptions. Many felt characteristics concentrated among women enhanced job performance, and men's characteristics damaged performance. Several insisted that sex-category differences in key attributes accounting for good police work were nonexistent or minimal. Women do not simply reproduce old female-male stereotypes and the hierarchies that devalue female-associated traits. They fashion complex, positive occupational identities that are not necessarily tied to their sex category.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-0851
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085111413253
ID  - ref1
ER  -