Anne Witz
Biographic Data
| ID | 274010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Witz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Witz |
| SIGNATURE | WITZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Professions and Patriarchy
Patriarchy and Professions
This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power.This is an important addition to the corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has been used to limit the employment aspirations of women in the middle classes. - Rosemary Crompton, University of Kent
Anamnesis and Amnesis in Bourdieu's Work
The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization
This article develops the conceptualization and analysis of aesthetic labour in two parts. The first part focuses on conceptualizing aesthetic labour. We critically revisit the emotional labour literature, arguing that the analysis of interactive service work is impeded by the way in which its corporeal aspects are retired and that, by shifting the focus from emotional to aesthetic labour, we are able to recuperate the embodied character of servi…
What Really Matters
The concept of the 'material' was the focus of much feminist work in the 1970s. It has always been a deeply contested one, even for feminists working within a broadly materialist paradigm of the social. Materialist feminists stretched the concept of the material beyond the narrowly economic in their attempts to develop a social ontology of gender and sexuality.Nonetheless, the quality of the social asserted by an expanded sense of thematerial - i…
The Quality of Manhood
This paper argues for the need to revisit classical sociological texts with a view to excavating the masculinity that inheres in these texts and saturates the concept of the social. Primarily through an examination of Durkheim and Simmel, it explores the strategies whereby masculine individuals could be released from corporeality and granted the sort of embodiment that allowed them to transcend their particularity and become social agents. It is …
‘Colonising Women’
Georg Simmel and the Masculinity of Modernity
Current evaluations of Simmel's theoretical writings on men, women and modernity have read these too generously, relying on a curate's egg motif culling the good parts from the bad parts. The good parts are judged insightful and prescient, revealing the workings of a sociological imagination and even anticipating elements of contemporary feminist epistemology. The bad parts reveal the unfortunate incursion of ideological baggage or blinkered roma…
Aesthetic Labour in Interactive Service Work
This article discusses the aesthetic labour in interactive service work: some case study evidence from the 'new' Glasgow.
Whose Body Matters? Feminist Sociology and the Corporeal Turn in Sociology and Feminism
This article proposes that the urgent task for feminist sociology is to recuperate those lost or residual `body matters' which lurk, unattended to, on the sidelines of the social. Feminist sociology must carefully negotiate the complex space between sociality and corporeality. The new feminist philosophies of the body tend sometimes to grate against this project by valorizing the body but de-valorizing gender. The new sociology of the body is rec…
Was tun Feministinnen, wenn sie Soziologie betreiben
Gender, Careers and Organisations
Is the position of women in the workplace changing? In addressing the broad range of issues raised by this question, Gender, Careers and Organisations engages in diverse contemporary debates about eco
Feminism and the Matter of Bodies
Gender and bureaucracy
Professions and patriarchy
This original study combines mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power
Women's Health Matters (Book)
The Gender of Organizations
Patriarchy and Professions
The relationship between gender and professionalisation is a neglected one, and female professional projects have been overlooked in the sociology of professions. The generic notion of profession is also a gendered notion as it takes what are in fact the successful professional projects of class-privileged male actors at a particular point in history and in particular societies to be the paradigmatic case of profession. Instead, it is necessary t…
From ‘family labour’ to ‘family wage'? The case of women's labour in nineteenth‐century coalmining∗
In much of the literature on women's oppression under capitalism the exclusionary tactics of working-class men are seen as a major source of patriarchal control in the nineteenth-century workplace. Such exclusionary tactics have taken many forms but historically the most frequently cited example is the support of male trade unionists for protective legislation which, in the course of the nineteenth century, increasingly restricted the range of oc…
Whose Body Matters? Feminist Sociology and the Corporeal Turn in Sociology and Feminism
This article proposes that the urgent task for feminist sociology is to recuperate those lost or residual `body matters' which lurk, unattended to, on the sidelines of the social. Feminist sociology must carefully negotiate the complex space between sociality and corporeality. The new feminist philosophies of the body tend sometimes to grate against this project by valorizing the body but de-valorizing gender. The new sociology of the body is rec…
Patriarchy and Professions
The relationship between gender and professionalisation is a neglected one, and female professional projects have been overlooked in the sociology of professions. The generic notion of profession is also a gendered notion as it takes what are in fact the successful professional projects of class-privileged male actors at a particular point in history and in particular societies to be the paradigmatic case of profession. Instead, it is necessary t…
Gender and bureaucracy
Professions and patriarchy
This original study combines mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power
Feminism and the Matter of Bodies
From ‘family labour’ to ‘family wage'? The case of women's labour in nineteenth‐century coalmining∗
In much of the literature on women's oppression under capitalism the exclusionary tactics of working-class men are seen as a major source of patriarchal control in the nineteenth-century workplace. Such exclusionary tactics have taken many forms but historically the most frequently cited example is the support of male trade unionists for protective legislation which, in the course of the nineteenth century, increasingly restricted the range of oc…
What Really Matters
The concept of the 'material' was the focus of much feminist work in the 1970s. It has always been a deeply contested one, even for feminists working within a broadly materialist paradigm of the social. Materialist feminists stretched the concept of the material beyond the narrowly economic in their attempts to develop a social ontology of gender and sexuality.Nonetheless, the quality of the social asserted by an expanded sense of thematerial - i…
Georg Simmel and the Masculinity of Modernity
Current evaluations of Simmel's theoretical writings on men, women and modernity have read these too generously, relying on a curate's egg motif culling the good parts from the bad parts. The good parts are judged insightful and prescient, revealing the workings of a sociological imagination and even anticipating elements of contemporary feminist epistemology. The bad parts reveal the unfortunate incursion of ideological baggage or blinkered roma…
Anamnesis and Amnesis in Bourdieu's Work
The Gender of Organizations
The Quality of Manhood
This paper argues for the need to revisit classical sociological texts with a view to excavating the masculinity that inheres in these texts and saturates the concept of the social. Primarily through an examination of Durkheim and Simmel, it explores the strategies whereby masculine individuals could be released from corporeality and granted the sort of embodiment that allowed them to transcend their particularity and become social agents. It is …
From ‘family labour’ to ‘family wage'? The case of women's labour in nineteenth‐century coalmining∗
In much of the literature on women's oppression under capitalism the exclusionary tactics of working-class men are seen as a major source of patriarchal control in the nineteenth-century workplace. Such exclusionary tactics have taken many forms but historically the most frequently cited example is the support of male trade unionists for protective legislation which, in the course of the nineteenth century, increasingly restricted the range of oc…
Patriarchy and Professions
The relationship between gender and professionalisation is a neglected one, and female professional projects have been overlooked in the sociology of professions. The generic notion of profession is also a gendered notion as it takes what are in fact the successful professional projects of class-privileged male actors at a particular point in history and in particular societies to be the paradigmatic case of profession. Instead, it is necessary t…
The Gender of Organizations
Gender and bureaucracy
Professions and patriarchy
This original study combines mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power
Women's Health Matters (Book)
Gender, Careers and Organisations
Is the position of women in the workplace changing? In addressing the broad range of issues raised by this question, Gender, Careers and Organisations engages in diverse contemporary debates about eco
Feminism and the Matter of Bodies
Was tun Feministinnen, wenn sie Soziologie betreiben
Aesthetic Labour in Interactive Service Work
This article discusses the aesthetic labour in interactive service work: some case study evidence from the 'new' Glasgow.
Whose Body Matters? Feminist Sociology and the Corporeal Turn in Sociology and Feminism
This article proposes that the urgent task for feminist sociology is to recuperate those lost or residual `body matters' which lurk, unattended to, on the sidelines of the social. Feminist sociology must carefully negotiate the complex space between sociality and corporeality. The new feminist philosophies of the body tend sometimes to grate against this project by valorizing the body but de-valorizing gender. The new sociology of the body is rec…
‘Colonising Women’
Georg Simmel and the Masculinity of Modernity
Current evaluations of Simmel's theoretical writings on men, women and modernity have read these too generously, relying on a curate's egg motif culling the good parts from the bad parts. The good parts are judged insightful and prescient, revealing the workings of a sociological imagination and even anticipating elements of contemporary feminist epistemology. The bad parts reveal the unfortunate incursion of ideological baggage or blinkered roma…
The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization
This article develops the conceptualization and analysis of aesthetic labour in two parts. The first part focuses on conceptualizing aesthetic labour. We critically revisit the emotional labour literature, arguing that the analysis of interactive service work is impeded by the way in which its corporeal aspects are retired and that, by shifting the focus from emotional to aesthetic labour, we are able to recuperate the embodied character of servi…
What Really Matters
The concept of the 'material' was the focus of much feminist work in the 1970s. It has always been a deeply contested one, even for feminists working within a broadly materialist paradigm of the social. Materialist feminists stretched the concept of the material beyond the narrowly economic in their attempts to develop a social ontology of gender and sexuality.Nonetheless, the quality of the social asserted by an expanded sense of thematerial - i…
The Quality of Manhood
This paper argues for the need to revisit classical sociological texts with a view to excavating the masculinity that inheres in these texts and saturates the concept of the social. Primarily through an examination of Durkheim and Simmel, it explores the strategies whereby masculine individuals could be released from corporeality and granted the sort of embodiment that allowed them to transcend their particularity and become social agents. It is …
Anamnesis and Amnesis in Bourdieu's Work
Patriarchy and Professions
This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power.This is an important addition to the corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has been used to limit the employment aspirations of women in the middle classes. - Rosemary Crompton, University of Kent
Professions and Patriarchy
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Feminism (4 works) · Patriarchy (4 works)