Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The workplace is a critical site in the social construction of gender that transforms cultural norms about gender into structurally ascribed and hierarchical power relationships. This article examines representations of hospital work in recent French and Belgian fiction films exploring the connections between idealized gender identities and the existence of profoundly unequal and stressful working conditions. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from performativity and the psychodynamics of work, the article examines the complex interplay between gender identity and occupation within three recent films. We will see that alongside structural hierarchy, gender divisions in a hospital setting are legitimized by a logic of urgent medical necessity. Following Judith Butler, the article aims to analyze and deconstruct naturalized gender representations, so that we can challenge the material inequalities to which they give rise.
Author: Waters, S.
Institutions: University of Leeds, University of Sheffield
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7062015528
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