Drawing on the accounts of female correctional officers working in Canadian prisons, we explore how gender identity influences the work orientations and social relationships of female officers and their interpretations of working with male and female prisoners. We suggest that female officers tend to pursue correctional work in a way that incorporates traits culturally associated with femininity and that relies on gendered understandings of prisoners’ dispositions and needs. In general, female officers’ accounts suggest that feminine identity operates as both a liability and currency in the context of prison work, albeit for reasons that vary across women and men’s prison.

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性别与监狱工作：加拿大女性省级惩教人员的经验

借鉴在加拿大监狱工作的女狱警的叙述，我们探讨了性别认同如何影响女狱警的工作取向和社会关系以及她们对与男性和女性囚犯一起工作的解释。我们建议女警官倾向于以一种融合了与女性气质相关的文化特征的方式从事惩教工作，并依赖于对囚犯性格和需求的性别理解。总的来说，女性官员的描述表明，女性身份在监狱工作中既是一种负担，也是一种货币，尽管原因因男女监狱而异。