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Just one of the guys? : transgender men and the persistence of gender inequality
- Author
- Schilt, Kristen.
- Title
- Just one of the guys? : transgender men and the persistence of gender inequality / Kristen Schilt.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Description
- x, 216 p. ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-210) and index.
- Contents
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- Framing transgender difference: pathology, diversity, biology
- Self-made men: culturally navigating 'natural' difference
- Becoming men at work: the unequal outcomes of difference
- Manufacturing gender inequality: workplace responses to stealth transmen
- Business as usual: workplace responses to open transmen
- Transgender matters: the persistence of workplace gender inequality
- Same as it ever was? inequality, reproduction, and transformation.
- Review
- "The fact that men and women continue to receieve unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for the disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious and unsonscious biases that guide hiring and promotion discussions. Just one of the guys? sheds new lights on the phenomenon by analyzing the unique experience of transgender men (people designated female at birth whoe gender identity is male) on the job. Kristin Schilt draws on in-depth interview and observational data to show that while individual transmen have varied experiences, overall their stories are a testament to systemic gender inequality. The reactions of coworkers and employers to transmen, Schilt demonstrates, reveal the ways assumptions about innate differnces between men and women serve as justification for discrimination. She finds that some transmen gain acceptance - and even privileges - by becoming "just one of the guys," that some are coerced into working as women or marginalized for being openly transgender, and that other forms of appearance-based discrimination also influence their opportunites."--BOOK JACKET.
- Kinsey subjects
- Transsexualism. Transsexualism research.
- ISBN
- 9780226738055 (alk. paper) 9780226738079 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226738051 (alk. paper) 0226738078 (pbk. : alk. paper)