Just one of the guys? : Transgender men and the persistence of gender inequality /
By: Schilt, Kristen.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010Description: x, 216 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780226738055; 9780226738055:; 9780226738079; 0226738051; 0226738078.Subject(s): Transgender people -- Employment | Sex discrimination in employmentDDC classification: 331.5 SCHItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 331.5 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0081682 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
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.
Kristen Schilt draws on in-depth interviews and observational data to show that while individual transgender men have varied experiences, overall their stories are a testament to systemic gender inequality.