
Dana Berkowitz (ed.)
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Published online:
21 September 2023
Published in print:
14 February 2023
Online ISBN:
9781479870585
Print ISBN:
9781479839612
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14 “In My Dad’s Gun Room, There’s an 8×10 Picture of Me in Drag”: Drag and Respect in the Deep South
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Masculinity in the Fire Service Brotherhood Masculinity in the Fire Service Brotherhood
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Context and Method Context and Method
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Negotiating Perceived Feminine Attributes in a Hypermasculine Context Negotiating Perceived Feminine Attributes in a Hypermasculine Context
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Passing Passing
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Compensating Compensating
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Condoning Condoning
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Questioning Questioning
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Soapboxing Soapboxing
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Gender Politics in the Firefighting Brotherhood Gender Politics in the Firefighting Brotherhood
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
24 Negotiating Masculinity in the Fire Service: Accessing Brotherhood or Subverting Gender Norms
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Pages
330–345
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Published:February 2023
Cite
Scarborough, Roscoe C., 'Negotiating Masculinity in the Fire Service: Accessing Brotherhood or Subverting Gender Norms', in Dana Berkowitz, Elroi J. Windsor, and C. Winter Han (eds), Male Femininities (New York, NY , 2023; online edn, NYU Press Scholarship Online, 21 Sept. 2023), https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479870585.003.0027, accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
My participant observation research examines masculinity as a basis for solidarity and exclusion in the American fire service. Firefighters with male femininities enact three strategies to access the fire service brotherhood: passing, compensating, and rationalizing. These approaches allow them to fit in as one of the guys. Conversely, firefighters employ questioning and soapboxing to subvert prevailing institutional gender norms. This on-the-ground look into the politics of masculinity examines how individuals departing from the hegemonic firefighter masculinity integrate into male-dominated collectives or challenge gender norms.
Keywords:
brotherhood, ethnography, firefighters, masculinity, gender politics, social change, symbolic interactionism
Subject
Gender and Sexuality
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