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Professions and patriarchy

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This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power.This is an important addition to the corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has been used to limit the employment aspirations of women in the middle classes. - Rosemary Crompton, University of Kent

Title Professions and patriarchy / Anne Witz.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1992
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-225) and indexes.
English
Content Cover
Title
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Gender, closure and professional projects
1 PATRIARCHY, CAPITALISM AND GENDER RELATIONS AT WORK
2 PATRIARCHY AND PROFESSIONS
Part II: Gender and professional projects in the medical division of labour
3 GENDER AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISATION
4 MEDICAL MEN AND MIDWIVES
5 THE OCCUPATIONAL POLITICS OF NURSE REGISTRATION
6 GENDER AND RADIOGRAPHY
7 CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Series International library of sociology
Extent 1 online resource (240 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010708472405171
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