Exploring how men in service and caring occupations (cabin crew, primary school teachers, nurses and librarians) both ‘do’ and ‘undo’ gender as they manage the potential mismatch between gender and occupational identity, this book engages with the key theoretical concepts of identity, visibility and emotions to examine men’s experiences.
Table of Content
PART I: INTRODUCTION Introducing Men in Non-Traditional Occupations Identities; with A.Pullen (In)visibility Gender, Service and Emotions PART II: OCCUPATIONAL CONTEXTS Gender, Performativity, Space: Male Cabin Crew and the Negotiation of Identity; with M.Patrickson Bodies, Embodiment and Male Nurses Male Primary School Teachers and the Negotiation of a Professional Identity Occupational Image and Social Identity: The Case of Male Librarians Men on Women and Women on Men: Reflexivity and Constructions of Difference in the Context of Nursing Care Conclusion
About the author
RUTH SIMPSON is Professor in Management at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include gender and emotions, gender and management education and gender and organizations. Other published work include
Gendering Emotions in Organizations and
Voice, Visibility and the Gendering of Organizations.
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