TY - JOUR
T1 - Embodying gender, work and organization
T2 - Solidarity, cool loyalties and contested hierarchy in a masculinist occupation
AU - Monaghan, Lee
PY - 2002/11
Y1 - 2002/11
N2 - Despite a 'somatic turn' in the social sciences, there remains a dearth of theoretically informed research on male working bodies, the embodied doings of masculinities independent of biological sex and intra-gendered workplace relations. This is unfortunate because embodiment is thoroughly implicated in major social divisions, including gender domination in institutional contexts. Using an embodied sociological perspective and data generated during an ethnography of British nightclub and pub security work, this article goes some way towards embodying the social study of plural masculinities, work and organization. Exploring worker solidarity, cool loyalties and contested hierarchy in this risky masculinist occupation hopefully makes several contributions to the literature. Furthering the (theoretically informed) empirical study of masculinities and socially embedded bodies, the article sensitizes other researchers to gendered/embodied processes possibly taking a more diluted form in other work settings.
AB - Despite a 'somatic turn' in the social sciences, there remains a dearth of theoretically informed research on male working bodies, the embodied doings of masculinities independent of biological sex and intra-gendered workplace relations. This is unfortunate because embodiment is thoroughly implicated in major social divisions, including gender domination in institutional contexts. Using an embodied sociological perspective and data generated during an ethnography of British nightclub and pub security work, this article goes some way towards embodying the social study of plural masculinities, work and organization. Exploring worker solidarity, cool loyalties and contested hierarchy in this risky masculinist occupation hopefully makes several contributions to the literature. Furthering the (theoretically informed) empirical study of masculinities and socially embedded bodies, the article sensitizes other researchers to gendered/embodied processes possibly taking a more diluted form in other work settings.
KW - Embodiment
KW - Ethnography
KW - Masculinities
KW - Risk
KW - Violence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036869915&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1468-0432.00173
DO - 10.1111/1468-0432.00173
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036869915
SN - 0968-6673
VL - 9
SP - 504
EP - 536
JO - Gender, Work and Organization
JF - Gender, Work and Organization
IS - 5
ER -