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Just One of the Guys? Kristen Schilt

Just One of the Guys? By Kristen Schilt

Just One of the Guys? by Kristen Schilt


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Summary

The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. This book focuses on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men - people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male - on the job.

Just One of the Guys? Summary

Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality by Kristen Schilt

The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious and unconscious biases that guide hiring and promotion decisions. Just One of the Guys? sheds new light on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men - people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male - on the job. Kristen Schilt draws on in-depth interviews 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 differences 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 opportunities. Showcasing the voices of a frequently overlooked group, Just One of the Guys? lays bare the social processes that foster forms of inequality that affect us all.

Just One of the Guys? Reviews

Truly innovative, courageous, and rigorous. Just One of the Guys? will spark a lot of dialogue and some contentious discussions. Kristen Schilt has taken an ethnographic and interview-based approach to understanding the workplace inequalities facing a highly understudied population, and the results are sobering and unexpected. This is an indubitably creative and original book. - Shari L. Dworkin, University of California, San Francisco

About Kristen Schilt

Kristen Schilt is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.

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GOR008090814
9780226738079
0226738078
Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality by Kristen Schilt
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The University of Chicago Press
20110215
232
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