Gender, bodies, and work. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Morgan, Berit Brandth, and Elin Kvande.
• Other Names: Morgan, D. H. J; Brandth, Berit, 1947-; Kvande, Elin, 1951-
• Contents: Thinking about gender, bodies and work / David Morgan, Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande -- Gender, bodies, work: re-reading texts / David Morgan -- Embodying emotional labour / David Knights and Torkild Thanem -- Gendered bodies and boundary setting in the airline industry / Ulla Forseth -- Gut feeling, back-slapping -- gendered embodiment on the exchange / Bente Rasmussen -- Embodying male workers as fathers in a flexible working life / Elin Kvande -- The gendered embodiment of agriculturel work: nature, machinery and patriarchy / Berit Brandth and Marit S. Haugen -- Embodied gender talks -- the gendered discourse of tiredness / Karin Widerberg -- Gender and care: the role of cultural ideas of dirt and disgust / Lise Widding Isaksen -- Men, bodies and nursing / Rannveig Dahle -- All foetuses created equal? Constructing foetal, maternal and professional bodies with obstetric ultrasound / Ann Rudinow Soetnan -- Lonely heroes and great white gods. Medical stories, masculine stories / Kathy Davis.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (180 pages)
• Subjects: 305.43; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research; Human body -- Social aspects; Sex role; Work; Sex role -- Congresses; Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Work -- Congresses; Rôle selon le sexe -- Congrès; Corps humain -- Aspect social -- Congrès; Travail -- Congrès; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351934541; 1351934546
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.