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FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 329-349Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1557085118767974
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psycho-social ethnography of commonplace methodology; culture of corrections; social alienation; masculine-defined culture; men-dominated work; sexism; paternalism; marginalization; hostile workplaces
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Based on 36 interviews with women correctional officers, we examined their everyday work experiences in the Ontario Provincial correctional system. We used the Psycho-Social Ethnography of the Commonplace methodology to determine challenges and complications women endure in this highly gendered, masculine-defined culture, and the resilience approaches they used to survive. Findings indicate how sexism, hostility, paternalism, and social alienation are maintained and reinforced. Women are repetitively, implicitly and explicitly reminded of their fragile femininity, physical inferiority, and lack of fit. Policy recommendations to contravene the Culture of Corrections' androcentric nature, and those found in other nontraditional men-dominated work environments, are offered.
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