Professions and Patriarchy
Anne Witz(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 9. January 1992
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-415-05008-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book engages with sociological debates about the social sources of professional power and with feminist debates about how gender segregation in employment is generated and sustained. The author argues that the gender blindness of prevailing neo-Marxist and neo-Weberian approaches to the study of professions has frustrated the development of an analysis of the relation between gender and professional projects. It is necessary to gender the agents of professional projects and to historically anchor occupational professionalism within the structural parameters of 19th century patriarchal capitalism. The author elaborates a model of occupational closure which concentrates in particular on the gendered dimensions of closure. It distinguishes between exclusionary, demaractionary, inclusionary and dual closure strategies of occupational closure. The explanatory power of the model is tested through an analysis of the professional projects and inter-professional rivalries of medical men, midwives, nurses and radiographers in the emerging medical division of labour in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
This book should be of interest to students of women's studies, sociology, history and nursing studies.
This book should be of interest to students of women's studies, sociology, history and nursing studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-05008-1 (9780415050081)
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Content
Part I: Gender, Closure and Professional Projects 1. Partiarchy, Capitalism and Gender Relations at Work 2. Patriarchy and Professions Part II: Gender and Professional Projects in the Medical Division of Labour 3. Gender and Medical Professionalisation 4. Medical Men and Midwives 5. The Occupational Politics of Nurse Registration 6. Gender and Radiography.