Dry your eyes princess : an analysis of gender and 'other' based discources in police organisations Ryan, Cheryl 2006, Dry your eyes princess : an analysis of gender and 'other' based discources in police organisations, in AARE 2006 : Conference papers, abstracts and symposia, Australian Association for Research in Education, Coldstream, Vic., pp. 1-14. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Dry your eyes princess : an analysis of gender and 'other' based discources in police organisations Author(s) Ryan, Cheryl orcid.org/0000-0002-4929-4797 Conference name Australian Association for Research in Education. Conference (2006 : Adelaide, S.Aust.) Conference location Adelaide, South Australia Conference dates 26 - 30 November 2006 Title of proceedings AARE 2006 : Conference papers, abstracts and symposia Publication date 2006 Start page 1 End page 14 Publisher Australian Association for Research in Education Place of publication Coldstream, Vic. Summary This paper examines the literature relevant to an analysis of gender and discourse in police organisations with a view to testing it through research. Much of the literature on policing can be divided into four key topic areas: the features and construction of police culture; women’s integration into policing; organisational structures and styles of police leadership; and debates about the nature of police work. An examination of the literature has revealed a deficiency of research in discourses within policing and in particular, the impact of discourses on gender and police training. Assumptions underpinning the research project and supported by literature include: formal and informal structures and practices within organisations produce and reproduce gender relations; power, gender relations and masculinity are characteristics of police culture; discourses are products and resources of interactions which establish particular truths; and police organisations have been slow to respond to anti-discrimination legislation and to integrate women into police services. Critical to any analysis of culture, power, gender, discourses, difference, and subjectification is the dynamic and complex nature of culture. Applying Shearing’s and Ericson’s definition of culture as ‘figurative logic’ has resonance in police organisations where symbols, rhetoric and metaphors function as vehicles for discourses. ISSN 1324-9339 1324-9320 1034-0130 Language eng Field of Research 160809 Sociology of Education HERDC Research category E2 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed HERDC collection year 2007 Copyright notice ©2006, AARE Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30014873 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 21 Oct 2008, 14:28:10 EST Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 09:51:49 EST Thu, 22 Apr 2010, 14:46:29 EST Fri, 28 May 2010, 12:50:03 EST Mon, 05 Jul 2010, 12:02:51 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 14:32:37 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 635 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 21 Oct 2008, 14:28:09 EST