A Juggling Act: A feminist post-structuralist analysis of girls' and boys' talk in the secondary classroom

Baxter, Judith

doi:10.1080/09540250120098843

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“…The 'relentless interplay' (Baxter, 2002a) between competing discourses and power positions, revealed in this study in the ways the doctors and nurses continuously positioned and repositioned themselves, suggests non-unitary and constantly shifting subjectivities. Thus, rather than organizations 'making up' worker subjectivity, they must compete as just one source of power among a number of other sources: professional, gender, sexuality or family to name but a few.…”

Section: Conclusion: 'Playing' Doctors and Nurses?mentioning

confidence: 91%

‘Playing’ Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service

Leonard

2003

The Sociological Review

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This paper adopts a feminist poststructuralist approach to demonstrate the ambiguities and complexities which exist in the relationship between work and subject. Recent studies in organizational sociology have argued that the discourses of work, and changing working cultures, have had a powerful effect on the production of subjectivities. New forms of working behaviour have been constructed as desirable, which often draw on personal qualities such as gender. This paper draws on research conducted with doctors and nurses in the British National Health Service to reveal the ambiguities which exist in the ways in which individuals position themselves in relation to these discourses. The discourses of work and organization are constantly mediated through, and destabilised by, the intertextuality that exists with competing discourses such as those of professionalism, gender, home and performance. Although organizational discourses are clearly powerful in the construction and performance of subjectivities, the interplay between discourses means that these are constantly destabilised and undermined.

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Section: Conclusion: 'Playing' Doctors and Nurses?mentioning

confidence: 91%

‘Playing’ Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service

Leonard

2003

The Sociological Review

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“…It has been argued that in order to avoid essentialism we need to incorporate "into the core conception of identity the dimensions of time, space, and relationality" (Somers and Gibson 1993). Post-structuralist feminist theorizing of gendered discourses (Baxter 2002;Bruni et al 2005;Sunderland 2004) provides opportunities to examine in more intricate ways the dominant masculine discourse of entrepreneurship. An entrepreneurial narrative is crafted within complex, delicate, constantly changing relationships.…”

Section: Narrative Identity: Gender Constructed In Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial Narrative Identity and Gender: A Double Epistemological Shift

Hamilton¹

2014

Journal of Small Business Management

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A double epistemological shift is proposed to challenge the enduring dominance of the discourse of entrepreneurial masculinity, which impedes our understanding of entrepreneurship. First, a reframing of the epistemological status of narrative supports philosophical and theoretical approaches to the constitution of narrative identity. Second, an epistemological shift to understand gender in entrepreneurship through the constitution of gendered identities in discourse is proposed. These shifts invoke the ontological dimension of narrative and contemporary theories of gender to understand entrepreneurial identity as co‐constituted and located in repertoires of historically and culturally situated narrative. This offers new theoretical and methodological possibilities in entrepreneurship.

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“…As has been mentioned there are some management skills which females appear to be lacking. According to research such as that by Brophy andGood 1974, Carli (1990), Midwinter (1992), Sadker and Sadker (1994), Baxter (2002) and Kniveton (2006), females lack certain skills loosely categorized under the heading assertiveness. There is clearly room for the process of management training to include special attention to this area.…”

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“…Midwinter (1992) found males tended to be more direct than females, who tended to try to establish rapport before pursuing their intentions. More recently, Baxter (2002) noted in her study that boys interrupt and take over the conversation from girls. Kniveton (2006) found girls self confidence increased when they worked with boys rather than when they worked with other girls.…”

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Recruitment/selectors' perceptions of male and female trainee managers

Kniveton

2008

Journal of European Industrial Training

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Purpose: This study investigates whether those involved with recruitment/selection (RS) react differently towards male and female trainee managers. Methodology: Measures of the perceptions towards trainee managers were collected from 440 managers and professionals involved in recruitment/selection (RS). Findings: It was found males were seen to have more stereotype male management characteristics than females. Female (RS) perceived female management trainees as possessing more male management characteristics than did male (RS). Practical implications: The stereotype of the management trainee held by male (RS), with it's emphasis on 'male characteristics', would suggest females do face an unequal struggle in their careers. It is argued that male management characteristics, whilst possibly appropriate for organisations with a hierarchical structure, may not be as appropriate for the participatory organisational structure which is becoming more common. Suggestions are made to help develop management skills for both male and female trainees.

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A Juggling Act: A feminist post-structuralist analysis of girls' and boys' talk in the secondary classroom

Cited by 50 publications

References 15 publications

‘Playing’ Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service

‘Playing’ Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service

Entrepreneurial Narrative Identity and Gender: A Double Epistemological Shift

Recruitment/selectors' perceptions of male and female trainee managers

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