Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Professional Work - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802081436 ISBN 13: 9780802081438

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Challenging Professions is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of thirteen thematically linked yet methodologically diverse essays that explore Canadian women's engagement with professional education and employment in the twentieth century. Guided by a co-authored introduction, Challenging Professions critically examines how women's entry into and continued participation in the professions not only contested but also challenged a concept of professionalism that was and remains profoundly gendered. This book is the product of a three-year collaboration among sixteen researchers from a variety of fields, who joined together in an interdisciplinary network funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to explore collectively their individual research on women and professional education.

The collection as a whole explores change over time and the differences between professions peopled mostly by men and those whose members are chiefly women. The difficulties of combining family and professional commitment and the impact of professional on personal life are further integrating themes. Challenging Professions raises questions not only about women's relationships to the professions, but about the professions themselves, adding to the literature that demonstrates that the meaning of professionalism is historically and culturally contingent. This collection offers readers the opportunity to examine critically both the challenges of professional work for women and the ways in which women have challenged professions.

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ELIZABETH SMYTH is Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto. SANDRA ACKER is Professor, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto. PAULA BOURNE is Research Associate, Centre for Women's Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802081436
• ISBN 13: 9780802081438
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 334
• Herausgeber: Smyth Elizabeth, Acker Sandra, Bourne Paula, Prentice Alison
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar