Police and gendered labor performances: hypermasculinity and policing as a masculine function

This article argues that despite the institutional effort made by Rio de Janeiro’s Military Police (PMERJ) to transform its public image by promoting the work of female officers, workplace relationships based on traditional understandings of gender roles continue to hinder women’s potential to thriv...

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Main Author: Alba Zaluar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia 2017-08-01
Series:Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/vibrant/4191