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| Title: | Is Anyone Listening?
: Women, Work & Society |
| Author: | Dr Merle Jacobs (ed) |
| ISBN: | 0889614091 : 9780889614093 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 344 |
| Weight: | .468 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press) - January 2002 |
| List Price: | 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Womens studies |
Jacobs has brought together the work of progressive feminist writers who theorise gender, race, diversity research, the social construction of women and work, ethnicity, and class. The essays in this reader are focused on issues relating to gender equality in workspaces in society. Included are contributions from well-known and established social scientists. Among them are Pat & Hugh Armstrong, Himani Bannerji, Christine Bruckert, and Tania Das Gupta. The result is a stimulating collection that focuses on health-care workers, teachers, strippers, wageless workers, and women who are 'hidden from view'. The collection explores the construction of gender, the selection of careers, and the differential in work conditions and wages.
Introduction: Is Anyone Listening?; Feminist Methodology: Theorising Women's Work; The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and Women of Colour; Qualitative Research to Identify Racialist Discourse: Towards Equity in Nursing Curricula; Teaching Against the Grain; Racism in Nursing; Toward Anti-Racism in Social Work in the Canadian Context; The World of the Professional Stripper; Gender and Inequality and Medical Education; Benevolent Patriarchy: The Foreign Domestic Movement; The New Wageless Worker: Volunteering and Market-Guided Health Care Reform; Who Else Would Do It?: Female Family Caregivers in Canada; Marginal Women; Creating Understanding from Research: Staff Nurses' Views on Collegiality; Anti-Racism Advocacy in the Climate of Corporatisation; Undertaking Advocacy.
