IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/socres/v12y2007i1p118-128.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Diversity in Uniform? - Gender and Sexuality within the Berlin Police Force[1]

Author

Listed:
  • Sonja M. Dudek

Abstract

This article examines the significance of gender and sexuality within the German uniformed police. For a long time the police was regarded to be the classic domain of men, but since some years the police actively tries to employ more heterogeneous staff. These efforts result in a clear change of personnel: more and more women are working in the police. It is the aim of this article to firstly examine in which historical contexts gender and sexuality have been relevant categories within the police organisation. Secondly gender and sexuality in organisational theory, especially considering criticism of feminist organizational theory on classical concepts are discussed. Thirdly theories on micropolitical negotiations, processes of managing gender and sexuality are introduced and connected to the police. In the following part of this article two interview examples are presented and analysed, in which the significance of sexuality and gender today are discussed by female police officers.

Suggested Citation

  • Sonja M. Dudek, 2007. "Diversity in Uniform? - Gender and Sexuality within the Berlin Police Force[1]," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 12(1), pages 118-128, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:12:y:2007:i:1:p:118-128
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1534
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5153/sro.1534
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.5153/sro.1534?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Anne R. van Ewijk, 2014. "Meanings and Motives before Measures: The ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of Diversity within the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Politie Utrecht," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 2(3), pages 060-074.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:12:y:2007:i:1:p:118-128. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.