Negotiating the uncomfortable intersections between gender and professional                 identities in social work

Christie, Alastair

doi:10.1177/0261018306062591

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“…We thought gender and previous training/socialization in management were important to account for differences in identification given previous research on professional identity (e.g. Pratt et al, 2006;Christie, 2006). Also, we compared DMs from different specialties, tenure in hospital and in number of subordinates, because these variables might influence role identification.…”

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confidence: 99%

Role-meanings as a critical factor in understanding doctor managers' identity work and different role identities

Cascón‐Pereira

Chillas

Hallier

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Research Context and Methodologymentioning

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Role-meanings as a critical factor in understanding doctor managers' identity work and different role identities

Cascón‐Pereira

Chillas

Hallier

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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“…However, caring is also seen as a feminized activity because women as mothers, daughters and partners influence the types and amounts of care provided by men (Christie 2006). This is because women perceive caring as their sphere of influence and because they perceive men as less adequate as careers (cf.…”

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“…From studies of men as social workers, Christie (1998Christie ( , 2006 writes that because social work is identified as a caring profession it is also often viewed and described as a non-traditional occupation for men. Mclean (2003) emphasizes in a study about men employed in statutory social care works that: "By showing men's other capabilities, such as sensitivity and caring, they risk being accused of being too 'feminine' "(p. 50).…”

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Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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In caregiving literature, it is often the female gender that has been the focus of attention, and in particular women's unpaid labor. Studies also tend to make comparisons between men's and women's caregiving, using men's caregiving experiences to show not only that women face greater burdens, but also that men's needs can be disregarded. This means that while gender analyses are not uncommon in the caregiving literature, gender tends to be equated with womanhood. The research problem that this dissertation addresses is therefore the gender bias that characterizes caregiving scholarship at present and the fact that this bias is impeding us from moving the debates on care and caregiving forward. The aim of the dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to contribute to the rectification of the gender bias in question by focusing on men's caregiving and answering the following research questions: What motivates men to provide care for their elderly parents? How do adult sons experience caregiving? What do adult sons think that care and caregiving are, i.e. what are their perspectives on care? Secondly, this dissertation also aims to explore whether a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective can be used to enhance our understanding of caregiving. Thus, through a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 19 caregiving adult sons and sons-in-law, this dissertation discusses how motives, experiences and perspectives, which have so far been interpreted as unique to women, are also matters that men talk about and consider important in caregiving. The dissertation argues therefore that much could be gained if we were to rectify the gender bias that characterizes the literature on family caregiving and explore caregiving men in the genderaware and masculinity-informed way that is lacking in this literature at present. Inspired by the debate within studies of masculinity, the dissertation argues that within the debate on care there is a hegemony of care which has so far tended to exclude men's perspectives on caregiving because literature on family caregiving has regarded women as the ideal caregivers. This dissertation shows that a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective on care can increase our understanding of family caregiving and contribute to the rectification of the gender bias that care research suffers from. Against this backdrop, it is proposed that caregiving men should not solely be regarded as empirically interesting. This is because they are an unexploited and theoretically profuse source of information about caregiving.

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“…The issues of identity related to the body have especially emerged in gender and diversity studies (Christie, 2006;Gherardi & Poggio, 2001;Martin, 2001Martin, , 2003 and in studies that seek to analyze disciplinary power relations within organizational dynamics (Collinson, 2003;Fleming & Spicer, 2003;Flores-Pereira, Davel, & Cavedon, 2008;Hodgson, 2005). Albeit these are invaluable contributions to the study of body BAR, Rio de Janeiro, v. 12, n. 4, art.…”

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How Can We Define Mastery? Reflections on Learning, Embodiment and Professional Identity

Figueiredo

Ipiranga

2015

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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In this article we reflect upon the knowledge production process through the body in the social-material arrangement of craft. Resorting to the embodiment paradigm, we aim to theoretically understand how someone reaches the mastery that characterizes the domain of craft skill. In analogy with craft practices, we analyze how knowledge that relies under practical performances such as skill are built and kept through the bodily relation with the making of things in the immediate contact with the world. At the end, we conclude that such reflections about mastery may be useful to investigations on professional identity.

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Negotiating the uncomfortable intersections between gender and professional identities in social work

Cited by 52 publications

References 18 publications

Role-meanings as a critical factor in understanding doctor managers' identity work and different role identities

Role-meanings as a critical factor in understanding doctor managers' identity work and different role identities

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

How Can We Define Mastery? Reflections on Learning, Embodiment and Professional Identity

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