“…While focusing on these constructions, the article locates them within their specific societal context: the cultural expectations of full-time work for both women and men in Finland, broader material gendered structures of 'production' and 'reproduction', and the unintended paradoxes that can arise from these juxtapositions. Whilst the primary analysis is informed by social constructionism, it connects these constructions to wider societal forms, as highlighted in scholarship at the boundary between, for example, critical theory and post-structuralism (Bidet, 2016), as well as material-discursive and materialist-oriented discourse analytic approaches (cf. Fairclough, 1992;Hearn, 2014).…”
This article investigates the gendered dynamics of motherhood and careers, as voiced by professionals in the knowledge-intensive business sector in Finland. It is informed by the CIAR method through 81 iterative, in-depth interviews with 23 women and 19 men. Among the women respondents with no children, one child, or two children, three dominant forms of discursive talk emerge: ‘It takes two to tango’, ‘It’s all about time management’ and ‘Good motherhood 2.0’. Though Finland provides a seemingly egalitarian Nordic welfare state context, with the ‘Finnish Dream’, women face contradictions between expectations of women as full-time ideal workers pursuing masculinist careers and continuing responsibilities at home, performing ‘good motherhood’. The women’s double strivings meet the double constraining demands of these ideals. The gendered pressures are imposed on the women by themselves, male colleagues, the organisation more broadly and society, leading the women to enact a form of ‘bounded individualism’.
“…While focusing on these constructions, the article locates them within their specific societal context: the cultural expectations of full-time work for both women and men in Finland, broader material gendered structures of 'production' and 'reproduction', and the unintended paradoxes that can arise from these juxtapositions. Whilst the primary analysis is informed by social constructionism, it connects these constructions to wider societal forms, as highlighted in scholarship at the boundary between, for example, critical theory and post-structuralism (Bidet, 2016), as well as material-discursive and materialist-oriented discourse analytic approaches (cf. Fairclough, 1992;Hearn, 2014).…”
This article investigates the gendered dynamics of motherhood and careers, as voiced by professionals in the knowledge-intensive business sector in Finland. It is informed by the CIAR method through 81 iterative, in-depth interviews with 23 women and 19 men. Among the women respondents with no children, one child, or two children, three dominant forms of discursive talk emerge: ‘It takes two to tango’, ‘It’s all about time management’ and ‘Good motherhood 2.0’. Though Finland provides a seemingly egalitarian Nordic welfare state context, with the ‘Finnish Dream’, women face contradictions between expectations of women as full-time ideal workers pursuing masculinist careers and continuing responsibilities at home, performing ‘good motherhood’. The women’s double strivings meet the double constraining demands of these ideals. The gendered pressures are imposed on the women by themselves, male colleagues, the organisation more broadly and society, leading the women to enact a form of ‘bounded individualism’.
“…What is needed is a conceptual framework that marries the two, not to triumphantly declare "messiness", but to focus on the extent to which individual aspirations, state policy and the logic of capital(ists) work together to push speculation on housing. In this instanceas Bidet (2016) has argued-the capitalist present is best understood by holding Marx and Foucault in tension together.…”
His work focuses on the myriad ways in which capital remakes the city. He has published on territorial stigmatization, state power, and gentrification.
“…The conceptualization of power as always and necessarily constitutive of social organization presents a challenge to using the law as a means by which to alter or remove power imbalance in organizations (Brewis, 2001; Raffnsøe et al., 2014). The notion that brothel operators' power over sex workers can be mitigated by legislative change is correspondingly threatened, with the law viewed as a veil that obscures the enduring flows of power through organizations (Bidet, 2016, p. 22). Discussing this in the context of the role of the bourgeoisie in exercising economic power in Discipline and Punish , Foucault (1977, p. 222) remarks that,Historically, the process by which the bourgeoisie became in the course of the eighteenth century the politically dominant class is masked by the establishment of an explicit, coded, and formally egalitarian juridical framework, made possible by the organization of a parliamentary, organized regime.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In this way,What develops in this closed universe [of the organization], away from the juridical order, is a second penal context, constituted by norms enacted from the inside, an ‘infra‐justice’ outside of common law including corrective penalties, sanctions, punishments and rewards, and distributions according to classification systems defined in accordance with the specific institution. (Bidet, 2016, p. 22)…”
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New Zealand decriminalized sex work in 2004 with the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act (2003), which sets an explicit intention to prevent exploitation of sex workers and improve their welfare. This has demonstrably improved conditions for sex workers and provides a necessary context for addressing exploitation. However, little research has looked at how this works for brothel‐based sex workers in New Zealand. This paper responds to that gap by examining how brothel operators in New Zealand exercise power and control and how sex workers experience that. The study draws on in‐depth interviews conducted across New Zealand with 33 participants. These include staff from the New Zealand Sex Workers' Collective (2), brothel‐based sex workers (18), operators (8), and sex worker/operators (5). We use a Foucauldian framework and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to examine how disciplinary power informs brothel management, prompting the production of normative discourses of work that destabilize sex workers' safety at work. We conclude that decriminalization nevertheless provides an essential framework by which sex workers are able to resist disciplinary control (W/C 171).
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