Gender and Emotion Management

Taking care of oneself and others: The emotion work of women suffering from a rare skin disease

“…While analysis of emotion work carried out by patients has rarely been used in the literature as a way of accounting for the experience of illness (Froyum, 2018 ;Thomeer et al, 2015), we have seen here just how salient it proves as an approach. This article's first contribution is thus to show that, despite serious and chronic illness-in this case, pemphigus-plunging patients into uncertainty and emotional upheaval, it does not in fact radically disrupt the feeling rules in place with close friends and family.…”

“…There is also a broad consensus in the literature to suggest that women engage in disproportionate amounts of emotion work, particularly although not exclusively with a view to ensuring the well-being of other family members. (Froyum, 2018; Minnotte et al, 2010), to the extent that they could be considered “emotion experts” (Thomeer et al, 2013: 153) or “emotional gatekeepers” (Denham et al, 2010: 45). Nevertheless, for our study participants, illness seemed to make family emotion work less self-evident, shattering the illusion that such work is necessarily spontaneous, effortless, and a natural expression of motherly love (Erickson, 2005; Hochschild, 1983).…”

“…From the perspective of gender dynamics, the way in which emotional regulation is carried out, as identified in our study, echoes certain sociallyconstructed expectations of femininity. These include reducing expressions of anger (Froyum, 2018;Garside and Klimes-Dougan, 2002)-something that corresponds significantly to the work in which our participants engaged in order to normalize day-to-day life. There is also a broad consensus in the literature to suggest that women engage in disproportionate amounts of emotion work, particularly although not exclusively with a view to ensuring the well-being of other family members.…”

Business schools and faculty experiences of sexism: Gender structure tensions within and outside these schools

“…We adopt a broad definition of sexism as "prejudice or discrimination based on sex or gender, especially against women and girls" (Evangelista, 2017, p. 17). GST offers an integrated multi-dimensional framework to shed light on how cultural and material processes permeating individual, interactional, and institutional/macro dimensions to gender structures (re) produce 1 or challenge sexism extending to gender inequalities and sexual harassment (Froyum, 2018). We build on Risman's original framework by incorporating a specific organizational dimension to the analysis of gender structures and showing how tensions between the dimensions and processes of the gender structure shape the experiences of business school faculty, generating pressing implications for changes in policy and practice.…”