The emerging occupations of end-of-life doula and death midwife are part of a growing
sector of personal service jobs. Designed to support, educate, and empower dying people …

This chapter is concerned with the varied legitimizing discourses used by midwives to frame
their identities in relation to their work. This sociological issue is particularly important in the …

This issue of Gender & Society offers in-depth analyses of carework in a wide variety of
circumstances and locations around the globe: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil …

What exactly keeps women'in'inequitable care relationships, and how do we get'out'? This
dissertation offers a timely response to a pressing societal problem-that of how to …

La théorie sociale classique et contemporaine s' est beaucoup preoccupee de la question
de la mobilité occupationnelle. Selon les sociologues fonctionnalistes, la modernisation de …

This chapter discusses the suffrage as an equality campaign; by contrast, laws protecting
women from hazardous working conditions may be seen as reflecting a difference strategy. It …

Although some research considers women's participation in traditionally male‐dominated
jobs as an 'undoing'of the gender system, other scholars argue that women's participation in …

Abstract In the United States, the nursing profession has been dominated by women, who
constitute nearly 90% of the workforce. The profession's popularity among women has …

This paper is the product of over two years' fieldwork in two places: Central City, USA, and
the state of Kerala, India. In 1994 and 1995 I spent eighteen months in Central City at St …

Abstract In the United States, work is a central institution that reflects and reproduces gender
hierarchies that organize social institutions, interactions, and ideologies across social life …