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Charles, Nickie (2014) Doing gender, practising politics : workplace cultures in local and devolved government. Gender, Work, and Organization, 21 (4). pp. 368-380. doi:10.1111/gwao.12042
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12042
Abstract
This paper takes a workplace perspective to explore the ways in which institutional arrangements influence the doing of gender and the practising of politics. It compares the workplace culture of the National Assembly for Wales (NAfW) with that of local government in Wales, showing that the culture of the NAfW is experienced as less masculinised than local government and that women, and men, are less constrained to perform an aggressive, confrontational masculinity. This suggests that, in new political institutions, practising politics may be less closely tied to a particular way of doing gender and as a result may challenge the gendering of politics. Theoretically the paper engages with debates about doing, redoing and undoing gender, arguing that in order to understand how change can be brought about, attention needs to be paid to the structural context within which gender is done as well as the interactional level of doing gender.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology > Centre for the Study of Women and Gender |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wales. National Assembly., Women--Political activity--Wales, Men--Political activity--Wales, Sex role in the work environment--Wales, Gender identity in the workplace--Wales, Decentralization in government--Wales, Local government--Wales | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Gender, Work, and Organization | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0968-6673 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2014 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 21 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 368-380 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/gwao.12042 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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