Unit name | Gender at Work (EXETER SOCM030) |
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Unit code | GEOGM0052 |
Credit points | 30 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Tranos |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
(University of Exeter - SOCM030: Gender at Work - Unit Director: Jane Elliott)
This module will explore the ways in which gender identities are established and maintained in British Society. There will be a specific focus on the interplay between gender, employment and organizations and on social change over the past five decades. The module is suitable even if you are a non-specialist students, and you are following an interdisciplinary pathway. It will draw on readings from social psychology, sociology, feminist and queer theory, history, and cultural studies. There are no formal pre-requisites although you will be expected to have graduate level experience of reading and summarizing key arguments from a range of academic sources. The module will provide you with an opportunity to work collaboratively with other students and to gain experience of writing and editing a blog as well as more formal academic writing.
11 x 2 hour seminars
750-word blog post (20%)
6000-word essay (80%)
Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge.
Connell, R.W (1995) Masculinities. Polity: Cambridge.
Crompton R. (1999) Restructuring gender Relations and Employment: The decline of the male breadwinner. Oxford: OUP.
Crow G. and Ellis J. (2017) Revisiting Divisions of Labour: The Impacts and Legacies of a Modern Sociological Classic. Manchester; Manchester University Press.
Glucksman M. (2016) Completing and Complementing: The Work of Consumers in the Division of Labour. Sociology, Vol 50(5) 878-895.
Halford, S. Savage, M. Witz, A. (1997) Gender, Careers and Organizations: Current developments in Banking Nursing, and Local Government. Macmillan: Houndmills.
McCarthy, H. (2016) ‘Social science and married women’s employment in post-war Britain’, Past & Present 233: 269-305
Miller, D. (1998) A Theory of Shopping. Polity press: Cambridge.
Oakley, A. (1974) Housewife. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Offer, A. (2008), ‘British Manual Workers: From Producers to Consumers, c.1950-2000’, Contemporary British History, 22, 4: 537-71
Padios, J. (2017) Mining the mind: emotional extraction, productivity, and predictability in the twenty-first century. Cultural Studies 31 p 205-231.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2017.1303426
Scott, J. Dex, S. and Pagnol A (eds) (2012) Gendered Lives: Gender Inequalities in Production and reproduction. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Serano, J. (2016) Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Seal Press.
Siltanen J. (1994) Locating Gender: Occupational Segregation, Wages and Domestic Responsibilities. UCL Press: London.
West, C. and Zimmerman D.H. (1987) Doing Gender. Gender and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2. pp. 125-151
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/2/10.html: Crow et al short article revisiting Pahl’s work (2009) situated in the recession.