Weighing the value of femininity: casino cocktail servers and personal appearance standards

IF 0.8 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Ariella R. Rotramel, Megan Tracy, Emma Coles
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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines the intersections of femininity, labor, fatness and maternity. Specifically, this article explores Atlantic City’s casinos’ treatment of women cocktail servers, arguing that personal Appearance Standards (PAS) are a site of conflict that demonstrates the importance of expanding how femininity is embodied and valued in the workplace. Through a close reading of promotional materials, media coverage, and public lawsuit materials, our study reveals how workers’ bodies and the services they provide are (de)valued through the application of patriarchal feminine standards. Plaintiffs’ accounts demonstrate the push they experience to conform to a weight-based imagining of feminine attractiveness. The expectation of simultaneously providing drink service and entertainment creates an employer demand for hegemonically feminine workers. The result is a rejection of servers whose feminine growth exceeds the normative conceptualization of casinos’ seductive femininity. Gaps in legal protections as well as limited applications of existing discrimination laws continue to enable employers’ overreach into the management of women workers’ bodies.
衡量女性气质的价值:赌场鸡尾酒服务员和个人外表标准
本文探讨了女性气质、劳动、肥胖和母性的交叉点。具体来说,这篇文章探讨了大西洋城赌场对待女性鸡尾酒服务员的方式,认为个人外表标准(PAS)是一个冲突的地方,它表明了扩大女性气质在工作场所的体现和价值的重要性。通过仔细阅读宣传材料、媒体报道和公共诉讼材料,我们的研究揭示了工人的身体和他们提供的服务是如何通过父权女性标准的应用而被(贬低)重视的。原告的描述表明,她们经历了一种压力,要符合以体重为基础的对女性吸引力的想象。同时提供饮料服务和娱乐的期望创造了雇主对霸道女性工人的需求。其结果是服务员的女性增长超过了赌场诱人的女性气质的规范概念的拒绝。法律保护方面的差距以及现行反歧视法的有限适用,继续使雇主能够过度干预女工身体的管理。
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