Gender images in public administration : legitimacy and the administrative state

Gender images in public administration : legitimacy and the administrative state / Camilla Stivers.

Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this second edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stivers, Camilla
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [2002]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Women in public life > United States.
Women in the civil service > United States.
Sex role > United States.
Public administration > United States.
Women in public life.
Women in the civil service.
Sex role.
Administrative agencies.
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Administrative agencies
Public administration
Sex role
Women in public life
Women in the civil service
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Gender and Public Administration 1
  • 2. "On Tap But Not on Top": Women in the Administrative State 14
  • Women in Public Service 15
  • Women's Organizational Reality 22
  • Glass Ceilings, Glass Walls 26
  • Who's Minding the Kids? 30
  • Women and the Administrative State 33
  • 3. "Sharpening a Knife Cleverly": The Dilemma of Expertise 39
  • Objective Expertise 41
  • Professional Autonomy 48
  • The Hierarchy of Expertise 50
  • Brotherhood 54
  • Professionalism and Women 56
  • 4. "Look Like a Lady, Act Like a Man": The Dilemma of Leadership 59
  • A Portrait of the Leader 63
  • Women Leaders 71
  • Leadership and Public Administration 78
  • 5. The Hero Factory: The Dilemma of Virtue 81
  • Virtue 82
  • The Guardian 86
  • The Seeker After Fame and Honor 88
  • The Hero 96
  • The Citizen 102
  • 6. From the Ground(s) Up: Women Reformers and the Rise of the Administrative State 108
  • True Womanhood 111
  • Becoming Businesslike 116
  • Shaping the Administrative State 119
  • The Gender of Reform 121
  • 7. Paths Toward Change 126
  • Toward a Feminist Theory of Public Administration 127
  • New Images in Public Administration 131
  • Feminist Practical Wisdom 143.

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