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Working for Men‐at the Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality
Author(s) -
Loe Meika
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1996.tb01184.x
Subject(s) - harassment , human sexuality , agency (philosophy) , disadvantaged , power (physics) , gender studies , sociology , intersection (aeronautics) , gender relations , work (physics) , social psychology , psychology , political science , social science , engineering , quantum mechanics , law , aerospace engineering , mechanical engineering , physics
This article examines the dynamics of Bazooms. a “restaurant” in which power, gender, and sexuality come together to color relations between the three major “players” involved: waitresses, managers, and customers. Job‐based power relations and inequities, gender roles, implicit and explicit sexual roles, and sexual harassment are all “at work” in such a workplace. But definitions of power, gender roles, sexual identities. and harassment are in constant flux with each interaction among the players inside the Bazooms world. The women who work at Bazooms–the “Bazooms girls”–are disadvantaged in these interactions, but they are not helpless. Dynamics within the restaurant are constantly being negotiated and altered (within constraints) as these women exercise agency in the workplace.