scholarly journals Women's Work and The Library: Ideological Shaping of the Academic Librarian as the Alt-academic

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Eva Revitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Academic Mission ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Academic Librarian ◽  
Mode Of Production

Overwhelmingly, librarians working at Canadian universities are considered academic staff, if not faculty. However, the role and fit of the academic librarian within the academic enterprise is overshadowed and frequently misunderstood. As alt-academics, librarians' expertise and contribution to the university's academic mission is often sidelined: the nature of the work too frequently viewed through an organizational rather than an academic lens and characterized as preoccupied with a structured set of regularized responsibilities. Drawing on the findings of my doctoral research, an institutional ethnography of librarians' work experiences as academic staff, this article argues that social relations such as those that construct work value are historically rotted and ideologically determined. I propose that our speech, text, and talk, indeed our social consciousness, is permeated by two ideological codes—women's work and the library—that structure librarians' labour in a particular way. Ultimately, I link the devaluation of librarians' work to the necessary gendered exploitation of labour that happens within a capitalist mode of production.  

scholarly journals Making do on not much: High Energy Striving, Femininity and Friendship in Broad City

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 517-533
Author(s):  
Akane Kanai ◽  
Amy Dobson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Normative Relation ◽  
Women's Friendship ◽  
Women’S Friendship

In the years following the 2008 global financial crisis (“GFC”), feminist media scholarship has drawn attention to the gendered calls in Western media culture to remake subjectivity in line with imperatives of thrift required in conditions of austerity. In the shared symbolic environments that “gender the recession” (Negra & Tasker, 2014), media ranging from news, reality television, and film have placed further, intensified demands on women’s domestic, affective, paid and unpaid labour, requiring attitudinal orientations combining future-oriented enthusiasm, positivity, entrepreneurialism, a continued faith in (budget-conscious) consumption and investment in the home and the family. This article considers the US comedy Broad City as an articulation of how young women are critically grappling with such shifts in gendered social relations and labour markets in the cosmopolitan setting of New York City. We suggest, in the depiction of the central female friendship between Abbi Abrams (Abbi Jacobson) and Ilana Wexler (Ilana Glazer) in Broad City, the show foregrounds the necessity of young women’s “high energy striving” but produces an alternative configuration of the normative relation between femininity and labour. In the show, contra the “retreatism” Negra and Tasker document idealising women’s work in the home as a means of combatting an austere future, the thrifty fun, care, support, and love Abbi and Ilana strive to create together spills across public spaces, spanning the streets of the city, outdoors in parks and on stoops. Abbi and Ilana are continually depicted labouring in some way, though such labour does not generally result in financial or career-based reward, but rather, produces psychic and emotional sustenance for the women’s friendship and a means of affectively investing in each other. Thus, in Broad City’s acknowledgement of the high energy striving required to survive, the show critically questions the relation of such feminine striving to the promise of career, financial success, and the idealised direction of such striving towards the domestic and hetero-patriarchal family. Instead, the show emphasises the material importance of such striving in relation to the bonds of women’s friendship in conditions of material and social hardship, suggesting a different orientation to women’s work and its place in recessional culture.

Multiple Realities of Women’s Work Experiences in Coaching and Athletic Management

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Inglis ◽  
Karen E. Danylchuk ◽  
Donna L. Pastore
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Athletic Management

This paper is an exploration of the multiple realities of women’s work experiences in coaching and athletic management positions. Eleven women who had previously coached or directed women’s athletics programs were interviewed using a semi-structured approach. Three general categories emerged from the data — Support, Gender Differences, and Change. The work experiences reflect problems the women encountered at work, how organizations can be empowering, and the impact empowered women can have on the social construction of work. Based upon the data, we suggest that the individual search for empowerment takes different forms, yet also acknowledges that systemic changes must take place in order to improve the work environment for women. These findings are significant because they validate women’s experiences and contribute to the understanding of work experiences of those who are underrepresented and often left out of key circles of power and control.

scholarly journals A Context of Risk: Uncovering the Lived Experiences of Chin Refugee Women Negotiating a Livelihood in Delhi

Refuge ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Jops ◽  
Caroline Lenette ◽  
Jan Breckenridge
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Work Contexts

In India, the livelihood spaces that refugee women from Chin State, Burma, have carved for themselves in their country of first asylum remain relatively unexplored. This article focuses on Chin refugee women’s pursuit of liveli- hood in Delhi in 2012–13. The concept of “livelihood” is a starting point to better understand the women’s work experiences and explore the associated risks affecting their well-being. Emerging findings indicate that pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination, inside and outside of work contexts and a constant sense of livelihood insecurity severely affect the health and well-being of these women and contribute to diminished hopes for a future in Delhi.

Women's Work Experiences and Health in a Male-Dominated Industry

1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 663-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bodil Bergman ◽  
Sven G. Carlsson ◽  
Irma Wright
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Male Dominated
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