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Femininity at Work - Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital (Paperback)
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Femininity at Work - Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital (Paperback)
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This is a book about gender, labour, and changing relations of
power in a Swedish hospital, and presents an ethnographic study of
nurses and their work. Paid care work has been a domain of
institutional compliance to male dominance, as well as a critical
space for women to become economically independent and skilled. In
'Femininity at Work' Rebecca Selberg gives new analytical
perspectives and fresh insights into this area. Selberg situates
the new conditions for nurses' work firmly in the neoliberal
transformation of the Swedish welfare state. Nursing has undergone
dramatic changes in terms of work intensification and new forms of
subordination and class boundaries. At the same time, the nursing
profession has embraced nurses' new role as adjunct managers in
running the clinics and taking on new responsibilities offered by
New Public Management. The key contribution of Selberg's work is
her use of the concept of femininity. Through ethnographic
explorations of material and ideological conditions of care work,
she shows that gendered subjectivities can best be grasped by using
the 'plurality of femininities' as a conceptual tool. Rebecca
Selberg offers an empirically rich investigation of change and
continuity in the relationship between femininity and care work
among Swedish nurses. In addition to insights into changing
conditions of care work within the public sector, the book makes a
significant theoretical contribution through its analysis of how
labour processes shape and are in turn shaped by femininities.
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