Full Description
This fresh collection of essays examines the continued significance of gender as a marker of inequality in the lives of women across diverse contexts in Irish society. It is a cliche to say that we live in a knowledge society, but exactly whose knowledge sets the economic, political, social, and cultural parameters in any given society?
Contributors tackle this question by taking the reader on a gender knowledge journey through the contemporary workplace, the state and civil society and into the education and wider cultural domains. The essays demonstrate the persistence of power differentials, the resilience of gender stereotypes and the ongoing reproduction of specific kinds of gender exclusions. Ideas about gender (often outdated and ill conceived) continue to maintain existing power imbalances in tech work, finance, education, and media. Those ideas also frame public policy debates about sex work, homelessness, women's activism and reproductive rights. Finally, a gender knowledge perspective reveals the downstream impact of gender and others forms of difference and inequality in relation to the teaching profession, game culture, book reviewing and access to archival materials on historical abuse.
Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender: power, production and practice in Ireland will appeal to those interested in gender studies, political sociology and the sociology of knowledge.
Contents
Introduction
Speaking gendered knowledge to power
Pauline Cullen and Mary P. Corcoran, Maynooth University 3
I Gender, Knowledge and Work
1. Incompatible Logics: The Gendered Structures of Autonomy in Information Technology
John Paul Byrne, University College Dublin 21
2. Film, Television and Gendered Work in Ireland
Anne O Brien, Media Studies, Maynooth University 44
3. Banking on masculinity: gendered segregation, gendered normative practices and social closure in the Irish investment management sector
Corina Sheerin, School of Business, National College of Ireland 62
4. The Academic Career Game and Gender Related Practices in STEM
Pat O'Connor & Clare O'Hagan, University of Limerick 87
II The politics of knowledge production: gender and the state
5. Guilt, Shame, Acknowledgment and Redress: Some Reflections on Ireland's Institutional Treatment of Women and Children
Catriona Crowe, Independent Scholar 109
6. The Politics of Sex Work & Prostitution Policy Research in Ireland
Paul Ryan, Maynooth University 129
7. Gendering homelessness policy knowledge through participatory research.
Rory Hearne and Mary P. Murphy, Maynooth University 155
III The politics of knowledge production: gender and civil society
8. From self-entrepreneurs to rights-bearers: varieties of gender knowledge production in activism for women in Ireland
Pauline Cullen, Maynooth University 178
9. The Right to Know: Gender, Power, Reproduction and Knowledge Regulation in Ireland
Sinéad Kennedy, Maynooth University 202
IV Gender Knowledge and the reproduction of gendered cultures
10. Gender and College Entrants to the Teaching Profession
Delma Byrne & Cliona Murray, Maynooth University 221
11. Hacking at the techno-feminist frontier: gendered exclusion and inclusion in technology cultures
Aphra Kerr and Joshua Savage, Maynooth University 236
12. Marking your cards: gender distinction in the broadsheet book review
Mary P. Corcoran, Maynooth University 255
