Doing, redoing, and undoing gender: Variation in gender identities of women working as police officers

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-23

  Morash, Merry ^a   Haarr, Robin N ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender identity; police; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856487879     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085111413253     Document Type: Article

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