Embodying gender, work and organization: Solidarity, cool loyalties and contested hierarchy in a masculinist occupation

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 504-536

  Monaghan, Lee F ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Ethnography; Masculinities; Risk; Violence

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; GENDER ROLE; OCCUPATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036869915     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0432.00173     Document Type: Article

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