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Women Guarding Men - Zimmer, Lynn, Ph..D
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The hiring of women as guards in men's prisons represents a major breakthrough in women's efforts to achieve full sexual equality in the workplace. This dramatic social change has required great flexibility on the part of the women guards as well as substantial adjustments by their male counterparts, prison administrators, and the inmates themselves. In the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, Lynn Zimmer examines the experiences of the women and men involved in the painful process of transition from a segregated ...

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Women Guarding Men 1986, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226983394

Hardcover