Professions and Patriarchy

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

Anne Witz

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Gender, closure and professional projects; 1 PATRIARCHY, CAPITALISM AND GENDER RELATIONS AT WORK; 2 PATRIARCHY AND PROFESSIONS; Part II Gender and professional projects in the medical division of labour; 3 GENDER AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISATION; 4 MEDICAL MEN AND MIDWIVES; 5 THE OCCUPATIONAL POLITICS OF NURSE REGISTRATION; 6 GENDER AND RADIOGRAPHY; 7 CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index;