Wong Shun-wah. / Thesis submitted on: December 2002. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-91). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Contents --- p.v / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Empirical Puzzle and Theoretical Questions / Chapter 1.2 --- Casing a Case: Hospital as a Critical Case for Studying Gender and Professional Authority / Chapter 1.3 --- The Methodology / Chapter 1.4 --- Overview of the Thesis / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review and Theoretical Framework --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- Professional dominance and Professional Dependency / Chapter 2.2 --- Enthographic Studies of Resistance / Chapter 2.3 --- Gender and Organization / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Gendering Occupation in the Health Care Sector and the Gendered Occupational Structure of Hospitals --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- Gender Segregation in the Health Care Workplace / Chapter 3.2 --- Hospital Setting: A Gendered Organization / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Resistance of Nurses --- p.45 / Chapter 4.1 --- Resistance Strategies of Women Nurses Mothering Gossip Symbolic Giving Explicit Resistance / Chapter 4.2 --- Strategies of Men Nurses: Resistance and Dilemma / Chapter 4.3 --- Divided and Not Organized / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Restrictive Authority of Doctors --- p.70 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Dependency of Doctors on Nurses in the Gendered Organizational Structure of Hospital / Chapter 5.2 --- Men Doctors' Means to Gain the Compliance of Nurses / Chapter 5.3 --- Women Doctors' Means to Gain the Compliance of Nurses / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.80 / Chapter 6.1 --- The Consequences of the resistance of women nurses: Accommodation and the Reproduction of Gender / Chapter 6.2 --- The Contribution of this Research and Issues for Future Study / Bibliography --- p.84