Shanghai’s Female Doctors: A Discussion of the Gendered Politics of Modern Medical Professionalization

This article contributes to recent debates about the relationship between affective labour and class by exploring the classed distinctions enacted through affective labour in the urban night-time economy. Bringing theories of affective labour into a dialogue with Bourdieusian feminist analysis, the article explores the affective and symbolic dynamics of hospitality labour in a gentrified inner-urban neighbourhood of Melbourne, Australia. It shows how the practice of hospitality labour enacts classed distinctions and tensions emerging from the gentrification of inner-urban areas, and how the aesthetic and symbolic dimensions of class contribute to the valorisation of affect in hospitality venues. The valorisation of affect are processes in which the value attributed to an atmosphere or consumption experience is based on the forms of distinction practised within the venue, enacted in aesthetics, tastes and modes of embodiment. The article also shows how practices of class distinction – both ‘punching up’ and ‘managing down’ – are connected to the gendered politics of service work in the way that workers manage the threat of violence or sexual harassment in venues. In general, the article shows how the classed dynamics of gentrification are enacted in affective economies, and therefore how Bourdieusian analysis of class can be usefully deployed in theoretical debates about affective labour.

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Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/AIDS and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098020984908 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 004209802098490

Author(s):

John Paul Catungal ◽

Benjamin Klassen ◽

Robert Ablenas ◽

Sandy Lambert ◽

Sarah Chown ◽

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Keyword(s):

Urban Politics ◽

Systems Of Care ◽

The West ◽

Gay Community ◽

Gendered Politics ◽

Aids Crisis ◽

Social Geographies ◽

Long Term Survivors ◽

Differentiated Care ◽

Hiv Aids

Scholarship on the place of the HIV/AIDS crisis in urban geographies of sexual minority activism has powerfully insisted on the importance of community organising as a response to state and societal failures and to their homophobic, AIDS phobic and morally conservative underpinnings. This paper extends this scholarship by examining the urban social geographies of exclusion produced by such community organising efforts. It draws on the perspectives of long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS (LTS) in Vancouver to highlight the differentiated care geographies of HIV/AIDS that resulted from the racialised, classed and gendered politics and urban imaginations enacted by gay and allied HIV/AIDS organising. Though LTS networks, spaces and politics of care and community were more extended than Vancouver’s gay community during the 1980s and 1990s, the centring of the West End gay village in many community-led responses to HIV/AIDS resulted in LTS geographies outside the West End being excluded from important systems of care and community. LTS narratives of the city at the time of the ‘gay disease’ thus tell an urban politics of sexual and health activisms as shaped not only by processes of heteronormativity and homophobia but also of racially, colonially and class-inflected homonormative urban imaginaries.

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The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210521000036 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Sergio Catignani ◽

Victoria M. Basham

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Knowledge Economy ◽

Power Relationships ◽

Potential Contribution ◽

Publicly Funded ◽

Gendered Politics ◽

The Everyday ◽

Gendered Power ◽

Army Reserves ◽

Multiple Challenges

Abstract This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional’ for political, military, economic, and social advancement. As feminist interpretive researchers examining an institution that prizes masculinist and functionalist methodologies, instrumentalised knowledge production, and highly formalised ethics approval processes, we faced multiple challenges to how we were able to conduct our research, who we were able to access, and what we were able to say. We show how military assumptions about what constitutes proper ‘research’, bolstered by knowledge economy logics, reinforces gendered power relationships that keep hidden the significant roles women (in our case, the partners/spouses of reservists) play in state security. Accordingly, we argue that the functionalist and masculinist logics interpretive researchers face in the age of the knowledge economy help more in sustaining orthodox modes of knowledge production about militaries and security, and in reinforcing gendered power relations, than they do in advancing knowledge.

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Newswatch: Gendered Politics at Work and Play

Women in Higher Education ◽

10.1002/whe.20749 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (9) ◽

pp. 3-5

Author(s):

Kelly J. Baker

Keyword(s):

Gendered Politics

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NEWSWATCH: Gendered Politics at Work and Play

Women in Higher Education ◽

10.1002/whe.20805 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 3-4

Keyword(s):

Gendered Politics

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NEWSWATCH: Gendered Politics at Work and Play

Women in Higher Education ◽

10.1002/whe.20702 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (5) ◽

pp. 3-5

Author(s):

Kelly J. Baker

Keyword(s):

Gendered Politics

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Austerity, Women and the Role of the State

10.1332/policypress/9781529210521.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Vicki Dabrowski

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Symbiotic Relationship ◽

Class Relations ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

Gendered Politics ◽

Role Of The State ◽

Diverse Backgrounds ◽

Everyday Experiences ◽

The Uk

Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, the author of this book makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between the state's legitimization of austerity and women's everyday experiences, the book reveals how unjust policies are produced, how alternatives are silenced and highlights the different ways in which women are used or blamed. By understanding austerity as more than simply an economic project, the book fills important gaps in existing knowledge on state, gender and class relations in the context of UK austerity. Delivering a timely account of the misconceptions of policies, discourses and representations around austerity in the UK, the book illustrates the complex ways through which austerity is experienced by women in their everyday lives.

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