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Conceptualising Women’s Working Lives

Moving the Boundaries of Discourse

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Editors:
  1. Wendy Patton

    1. Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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  • This book tracks the history of the career literature on women’s careers and presents new constructions which broaden our focus to a more holistic understanding of women’s working lives in both public and private spheres.

Part of the book series: Career Development Series (CADE, volume 5)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Challenge and Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Understanding Women’s Working Lives

      • Wendy Patton
      Pages 3-21

    3. Expanding the Discourse

      • Mary Sue Richardson, Charles Schaeffer
      Pages 23-49

    4. A Relational Cultural Paradigm as a Theoretical Backdrop for Considering Women’s Work

      • Donna E. Schultheiss
      Pages 51-62

    5. Patterns and Paradoxes in Women’s Careers

      • Deborah A. O’Neil, Margaret M. Hopkins, Diana Bilimoria
      Pages 63-79

  3. Transitions and Life Stages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Workable Solutions

      • Catherine Doherty, Carly J. Lassig
      Pages 83-103

    3. Midlife Career Transitions for Women

      • Claire A. Etaugh
      Pages 105-117

    4. Women’s Careers

      • Mary McMahon, Mark Watson, Jenny Bimrose
      Pages 118-133

  4. Specific Fields

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. A Social Constructionist Perspective of Women’s Career Development

      • Dulini Anuvinda Fernando, Laurie Cohen
      Pages 137-155

    3. Australian Women in the Academy

      • Carmel M. Diezmann, Susan J. Grieshaber
      Pages 157-173

    4. Women’s Aspirations Towards “STEM” Careers

      • Juliette Spearman, Helen M. G. Watt
      Pages 175-191

    5. Changing the Discourse of Women’s Work

      • Wendy Patton
      Pages 193-202

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 203-204
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About this book

Theoretical work on the career development of women has travelled a journey from critique to creation. Early work responded to and criticised a literature that focused on theorising male roles in a workplace that was conceptualised as providing vertical career paths primarily for middle class males. More recently theorists are creating new constructions and frameworks to enable a more holistic understanding of career, applicable to both women and men. These constructions include broadening the discussion from women’s careers to women’s working lives. This is the fifth book in the Sense Publishers Career Development Series. It features the vibrant work of contributors from around the world writing in the field of women’s working lives. It emphasises the need to explore theoretical connections and understandings in order to facilitate a more holistic and inclusive understanding of women’s working lives. The writers in the current volume acknowledge the changing roles of women, in both public and private spheres. Women’s roles in paid work are changing both in their nature and type of engagement. In addition, with an ageing population, women’s roles in care work are increasingly being extended from child care to aged care. This book provides a history of theorising about women's careers, in addition to presenting a focus on current empirical and theoretical work which contributes to understandings of women's working lives. It’s contributions both map the current discourse and challenge future work to extend the boundaries of that discourse.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    Wendy Patton

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Conceptualising Women’s Working Lives

  • Book Subtitle: Moving the Boundaries of Discourse

  • Editors: Wendy Patton

  • Series Title: Career Development Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-209-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-209-9Published: 20 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 204

  • Topics: Education, general

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