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GENDER, BODIES AND WORK

Gender, Bodies and Work

Edited by
David Morgan
NTNU, Norway and Keele University, UK
Berit Brandth
NTNU, Norway
Elin Kvande
NTNU, Norway

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 2005 David Morgan, Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande

David Morgan, Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Gender, bodies and work
1. Sex role in the work environment 2. Sexual division of
labor 3. Work - Social aspects 4. Gender identity
I. Morgan, D. H. J. II. Brandth, Berit, 1947- III. Kvande,
Elin, 1951
306.3615

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gender, bodies and work / edited by David Morgan, Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-4439-1
1. Sex role. 2. Body, Human--Social aspects. 3. Work. I. Morgan, D. H. J. II.
Brandth, Berit, 1947- III. Kvande, Elin, 1951-

HQ1075.G4623 2005
305.43--dc22

2005005672

ISBN 9780754644392 (hbk)

Contents

Guide

Berit Brandth is a professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. She is also affiliated with the Norwegian Centre for Rural Research. Her research focuses on gender, work and care politics, including topics of gender in agriculture and forestry.

Rannveig Dahle is dr. philos. in sociology and is currently working at the Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) centre. Her research is on professional work in the healthcare sector. She has published on topics such as gendered professional work, power relationships and professional struggles, and 'dirty work'.

Kathy Davis is a senior researcher at the Research Institute of History and Culture (OGC) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She has published widely on gender, power and discourse and written several books about the body. Currently she is working on a book about the globalization of feminist knowledge.

Ulla Forseth is dr. polit. in sociology and is currently working at the Institute of Social Research in Industry (SINTEF IFIM) in Trondheim where she is undertaking working-life research. She has published on topics such as service work, gender, emotional labour, occupational health and safety.

Marit S. Haugen is dr. polit. in sociology and is working as a director and senior researcher at the Centre for Rural Research in Trondheim. She has mainly published on gender issues in fanning and in rural communities, and is currently focusing on changing ruralities and young people's images of the rural.

Lise Widding Isaksen holds a PhD in sociology and works at the Department of Sociology. University of Bergen. She is researching care and gender issues related to the new global economy and has published on topics such as gender, power and the welfare state, care work as body work, modernity, body and subjectivity.

David Knights is a professor at the Department of Management at the University of Exeter and is a co-founder and editor of Gender, Work and Organization. His most recent book is Organization and Innovation: Gurus Schemes and American Dreams, Open University Press, 2003 with D. McCabe.

Elin Kvande is dr. polit. and professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU in Trondheim. Her work in the area of gender, work and the welfare state focuses on fathering and the welfare state. She has also published widely in the field of gender, work and organization.

David Morgan is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester. He also has a visiting Professorship at the University of Keele and an Ajunct Professor appointment at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU, Trondheim.

Bente Rasmussen is professor of sociology of work and organization at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU in Trondheim. She is also an advisor at SINTEF IFIM. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, work, organization and technology and she is currently researching into the organization of knowledge work.

Ann Rudinow Stnan is a professor of sociology at NTNU in Trondheim. Her research is in the areas of gender, work, science and technology especially medical work, science and technology. Her most important publication in this area is Stnan, Oudshoorn, and Kirejczyk (eds.), Bodies of Technology. Women's Involvement with Reproductive Medicine, Ohio State University Press, 2000.

Torkild Thanem received his PhD from the University of Warwick and now works as a Research Fellow in the School of Business, Stockholm University. His research is in the areas of organization theory, critical management studies and the body, and he is currently studying the organization and nonorganization of bodily aesthetics in public health and public space.

Karin Widerberg is a professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Widerberg has published books and articles on feminist theory of science and methodology, understandings of gender, sexual violence and law from a feminist perspective. Her recent major research project was on the sociality of tiredness.

This book originated in a graduate seminar held at NTNU, Trondheim and is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. We gratefully acknowledge the support of this council and the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). We would also like to thank all those who attended that seminar for the stimulation they provided in numerous discussions, formal and informal.

Many people have helped in the preparation of this book, and we offer our grateful thanks and appreciation for their contributions: John C. Anthony for providing the Norwegian authors with language assistance; yvind Dahl for editorial assistance. Carolyn Court and Mary Savigar at Ashgate have kindly supported the project and guided it through to completion.

A longer version of the article 'Lonely Heroes and Great White Gods' by Kathy Davis was originally published in M.D. Lanham (ed.) (2003), Dubious Equalities & Embodied Differences, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 41-58.

Chapter
Thinking About Gender, Bodies and Work

David Morgan, Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande

Introduction

All work is gendered and all work is embodied. To some extent these observations seem so obvious to be hardly worth stating. Yet, in common with so many 'obvious' features of social life, these connections have for a long time gone unnoticed. Many of the classics of industrial sociology and the sociology of work tended to obscure or by-pass issues of gender while questions of embodiment were almost invisible. Almost but not quite. A careful re-reading of these texts may reveal the working body and the embodied worker just as re-examination has revealed issues to do with gender (Morgan, this volume).

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