Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State
Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women’s historical progress as public employees, their current status in federal, state, and local governments, the peculiar nature of the organizational reality they experience, and women’s place in society at...
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Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women's historical progress as public employees, their current status in federal, state, and local governments, the peculiar nature of the organizational reality they experience, and women's place in society at large as it is shaped by government. Booknews Thinking that, perhaps, gender relations really had improved since the bad old days, as her students keep telling her, Stivers (urban affairs, Cleveland State U.) undertook the research to update her 1992 account. She did find progress in such indicators as the proportions of women at upper levels of federal, state, and local governments. However, she found little change in the reliance of public administration scholarship on images that conform to conventional notions of masculinity, and in women having to struggle to maintain a proper gender image and to balance competing demands of work and family. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface1Gender and Public Administration12"On Tap But Not on Top": Women in the Administrative State14Women in Public Service15Women's Organizational Reality22Glass Ceilings, Glass Walls26Who's Minding the Kids?30Women and the Administrative State333"Sharpening a Knife Cleverly": The Dilemma of Expertise39Objective Expertise41Professional Autonomy48The Hierarchy of Expertise50Brotherhood54Professionalism and Women564"Look Like a Lady, Act Like a Man": The Dilemma of Leadership59A Portrait of the Leader63Women Leaders71Leadership and Public Administration785The Hero Factory: The Dilemma of Virtue81Virtue82The Guardian86The Seeker After Fame and Honor88The Hero96The Citizen1026From the Ground(s) Up: Women Reformers and the Rise of the Administrative State108True Womanhood111Becoming Businesslike116Shaping the Administrative State119The Gender of Reform1217Paths Toward Change126Toward a Feminist Theory of Public Administration127New Images in Public Administration131Feminist Practical Wisdom143References148Index165About the Author174
\ Kenneth J. Meier"I would urge you to buy this book... The bottom line is everyone in public administration should read this book. Translate it, challenge it, teach it, and use it as a guide to empirical research."\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsThinking that, perhaps, gender relations really had improved since the bad old days, as her students keep telling her, Stivers (urban affairs, Cleveland State U.) undertook the research to update her 1992 account. She did find progress in such indicators as the proportions of women at upper levels of federal, state, and local governments. However, she found little change in the reliance of public administration scholarship on images that conform to conventional notions of masculinity, and in women having to struggle to maintain a proper gender image and to balance competing demands of work and family. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
