Description
Book SynopsisNurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative interviews, this title argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are entirely unfounded.
Trade Review"Williams [has] done us a service by urging us to look more closely at the complex forms of identity that emerge on both sides of the sexual divide and at the interplay between them." * Women's Review of Books *
"A significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on occupational sex segregation." * Social Forces *
Table of ContentsForeword by Neil J. Smelser
Acknowledgments
I. INTRODUCTION
2. INTEGRATING THE MARINE CORPS AND NURSING
3. FEMININITY IN THE MARINE CORPS
4· MASCULINITY IN NURSING
5. FEMALE MARINES AND MALE NURSES
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
