TY  - BOOK
AU  - PORTILLO Shannon
AU  - DOAN Alesha
AU  - MOG Ashley
TI  - Maintaining Male Exclusivity: Porcelain Privilege in the Military
PY  - 2022///
KW  - SPECIAL FORCES
KW  - GENDER INTEGRATION
KW  - GENDERED ORGANIZATIONS
KW  - TOILETS
KW  - EQUITY
KW  - STEREOTYPES
N2  - Current debates about bathrooms and bathroom policy contribute to a long history of how space shapes norms and expectations about privacy and gender equity in the workplace. The military serves as a significant site of discussion, particularly as the Department of Defense moves forward with efforts to integrate women into combat positions. Relying on an analysis of 27 focus groups with a total of 198 participants we collected from Special Operations in the U.S. Army, we examine bathrooms as a site where male soldiers contest and resist female integration. Using Sasson-Levy and Katz's concept of institutional de-gendering and re-gendering, we argue that men's resistance to gender-neutral toilets is an effort to re-gender Special Forces and maintain the hegemonic masculine culture that acutely defines it
UR  - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095327X21992369
ER  -