Working for Men-at the Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality |
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| Authors: | Meika Loe |
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| Affiliation: | Meika Loe is a graduate student in sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She received a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California at San Diego in 1995, and then worked for a year as an Americorps volunteer. This paper is an edited version of her senior honors thesis at U.C.S.D. and the winner of the 1995 Alpha Kappa Delta Undergraduate Paper award. Her primary research interests include sedgender studies, identity politics, work and social organization. |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the dynamics of Bazooms. a "restaurant" in which power, gender, and sexuality come together to color relations between the three major "players" involved: waitresses, managers, and customers. Job-based power relations and inequities, gender roles, implicit and explicit sexual roles, and sexual harassment are all "at work" in such a workplace. But definitions of power, gender roles, sexual identities. and harassment are in constant flux with each interaction among the players inside the Bazooms world. The women who work at Bazooms–the "Bazooms girls"—are disadvantaged in these interactions, but they are not helpless. Dynamics within the restaurant are constantly being negotiated and altered (within constraints) as these women exercise agency in the workplace. |
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