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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ivy Lynn Bourgeault" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:04 PM
Subject: Call for Papers - Special Issue of Equal Opportunities 
International


> Please post.
>
> Call for Papers
> Equal Opportunities International, Special Issue
>
>
> "Reinventing gender and the professions:
> new governance, e/quality and diversity"
> edited by Ellen Kuhlmann, University of Bremen, Germany and
> Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, McMaster University, Canada
>
>
> Professional work is one of societies' most contested areas of
> equality. The rise of professional projects is closely linked to power
> and control alongside the lines of gender, class and ethnicity/country
> of origin. However, recent societal transformations render professional
> boundaries more permeable. Although the pace of change varies between
> countries and occupational groups, we can observe a general trend
> towards more balanced sex ratios and inclusion of new social and
> ethnical groups in the professions. These developments are accompanied
> by new policies on equality and diversity management particularly in
> the public service sector and changing gender arrangements in society
> at large. Transformations in the governance of professions and the
> agenda of 'choice' in the public service sector enhance further
> dynamics that may reduce exclusionary strategies of the professions. In
> this situation, essentialist approaches on gender face a revival, not
> only in professional discourse but also in research. They appear in an
> optimistic version if gender is reduced to numbers, and women are
> expected to bring change to the content and organization of
> professional work - or men to upgrade predominantly female professional
> groups. They also appear as the 'ghost of feminization' that hurts the
> professions and nurtures fear for deprofessionalization since the
> nineteenth-century debates on the access of women to the professions.
>
> Because of these rapidly changing dynamics, there is a need for a
> critical review of the relationships between gender and professions.
> New approaches and empirical research are called for, that are more
> sensitive to context and overlapping dynamics. Changing sex ratios and
> gender arrangements do not translate in a linear sequence into more
> equal relationships. A gendered order of professions may intersect with
> new lines of division, for instance, provoked by migration and
> occupational flexibility. Similarly, changing gender arrangements may
> intersect with new policies and demands on the professions on
> accountability, responsiveness and quality of services. These
> developments challenge and change the boundaries within and between
> professions in complex ways and create new configurations of gender,
> class and race/ethnicity. We invite papers that deal with these issues
> either in a single country of profession or in comparative perspective.
> Deadline for receipt of abstracts (200-300 words) is 15 January 2007
> and the deadline for submitting a full paper (6,000 words) is 31 April
> 2007. Please visit the journal's website -
> http//:www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/eoi/eoi.jsp - for viewing
> the guidelines for authors; abstracts and papers should be send to the
> following addresses:
>
> Ellen Kuhlmann, email: [log in to unmask], and
> Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, email: [log in to unmask]
>
> Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Sociology & Health, Aging and Society
> Canada Research Chair in Comparative Health Labour Policy
> McMaster University
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> Hamilton, Ontario CANADA
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> webpage: http://univmail.mcmaster.ca/~bourgea
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