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Gender in the UK architectural profession: (re) producing and challenging hegemonic masculinity
journal contribution
posted on 2015-06-08, 15:59 authored by Katherine J.C. Sang, Andrew Dainty, Stephen IsonArchitecture represents a creative, high profile and influential profession and yet remains undertheorized
from a gender perspective. This article examines how gender is (re)produced in
architecture, a profession that remains strangely under-researched given its status and position.
The empirical work advances the theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity via an analysis
of gendered working practices and the agency of individuals through resistance and complicity
with these norms. It reveals how architectural practice relies on long working hours, homosocial
behaviour and creative control. However, whereas women perform their gender in ways which
reproduce such gendered norms, white, heterosexual, middle class men can transgress them to
challenge aspects of practice culture. This has significant implications for understanding the ways
in which hegemonic masculinities are reproduced within creative workplaces.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETYVolume
28Issue
2Pages
247 - 264 (18)Citation
SANG, K.J.C., DAINTY, A.R.J. and ISON, S.G., 2014. Gender in the UK architectural profession: (re) producing and challenging hegemonic masculinity. Work Employment and Society, 28 (2), pp. 247 - 264.Publisher
SAGE Publications / © The Author(s)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal, Work, Employment and Society. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017013491306ISSN
0950-0170Publisher version
Language
- en