Gender in the Flesh
Allostatic Load as the Embodiment of Stressful, Gendered Work in Canadian Police Communicators
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374631 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arija Birze (0000-0002-1988-8383, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Elise Paradis (0000-0001-9103-4721, University of Toronto), Cheryl Regehr (0000-0001-7814-7836, University of Toronto), Vicki Leblanc (0000-0001-5407-6420, University of Ottawa), Gillian Einstein (0000-0002-0770-5471, University of Toronto, Canada; Linköping University, Sweden; Women’s College Research Institute, Canada) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1299-1320 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170221080388 |
| OpenAlex | W4280503502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 97 |
Gender and work are important social determinants of health, yet studies of health inequities related to the gendered and emotional intricacies of work are rare. Occupations high in emotional labour - a known job stressor - are associated with ill-health and typically dominated by women. Little is known about the mechanisms linking health with these emotional components of work. Using physiological and questionnaire data from Canadian police communicators, we adopt an embodied approach to understanding the relationship between gender norm conformity, emotional labour, and physiological dysregulation, or allostatic load. For high conformers, emotional labour leaves gendered traces in the flesh via increased allostatic load, suggesting that in this way, gendered structures in the workplace become embodied, influencing health through conformity to gender and emotion norms. Findings also reveal that dichotomous conceptions of gender may mask the impact of gendered structures, obscuring the consequences of gender for work-related stress
Allostasis · Allostatic load · Conformity · Embodied cognition · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Stressor · Clinical Psychology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |