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<p> An important and significant contribution. . . . A study of the social construction of gender and how culture and agency influence the meaning of work . . . vivid and compelling. <br>

(<p> This is a splendid piece of research about troubling and important issues. Dana Britton has written a clear, often vivid, account of the realities of prison work - far from the media images. She shows how gender stereotypes and gender divisions of labour shape this work and the lives of the people who do it. This is a most valuable book for all who are interested in gender questions, in organizational life, or in the consequences of the recent growth of the prison system. <br>)-(R.W.Connell), (author of Masculinities and Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics )

An important and significant contribution... A study of the social construction of gender and how culture and agency influence the meaning of work ..., vivid and compelling. --American Journal of Sociology

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Dana M. Britton is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University.

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