| At Work in the Iron Cage: The Prison as Gendered Organization Subjects: Correctional personnel -- United States; Correctional personnel -- Training of -- United States; Prisons -- United States; Prisons -- United States -- Officials and employees; Criminal justice Administration of -- United States; Inmate guards -- United S; When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the "Big House" stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women are imprisoned is growing faster than that of men. Yet, despite increasing numbers of women prisoners and officers, ideas about prison life and prison work are sill dominated by an exaggerated image of men's prisons where inmates supposedly struggle for physical dominance. Britton Dana M. : Dana M. Britton is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University. |