Gender Trials - Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer L. Pierce is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext "This is an exciting contribution to our understanding of gender and emotion in workplaces everywhere."-Arlie Hochschild! author of The Second Shift and The Managed Heart "As a participant observer and insightful critic of lawyers' workplaces! Jennifer Pierce gives us a richly detailed picture of sex-based inequality and the strategies necessary to address it."-Deborah L. Rhode! Director! Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession! Stanford University " Gender Trials is an important addition to the literature on gender and work. In studying each gender within different jobs (litigator! paralegal) and different jobs within each gender! Pierce uncovers the complexities and contradictions of 'doing gender' in contemporary law firms. The phrases 'Rambo litigator' and 'mothering paralegal' capture the normative and behavioral convergences of job and gender in these firms. In analysing resistance as well as compliance! and the emotional and identity costs associated with both dynamics! Pierce produces an insightful! and disturbing! picture of legal practice in our time."-Patricia Yancey Martin! Florida State University "Pierce's lively first-hand account of women and men at work in several law firms greatly expands our empirical and theoretical understanding of what it means to say that occupations and work organizations are 'gendered.'"-Miriam Johnson! University of Oregon Zusammenfassung An ethnography that examines the gendered nature of large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, it discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals.

Product details

• Authors: J. Pierce, Jennifer L. Pierce, Pierce Jennifer L.
• Assisted by: Jennifer L. Pierce (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1996
• EAN: 9780520201088
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20108-8
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LAW / Legal Profession, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Legal profession: general, Social discrimination and social justice, Legal profession / practice of law: general