This poststructuralist research into managerial subjectivity follows ten senior managers’ experience, during significant organizational restructuring in the National Health Service. Located in the North of England the managers were interviewed three times during an eighteen-month period. An autoethnographic component is integral to the study; this recognises the researcher was a practising manager undergoing the same organizational change, whilst researching the field. Judith Butler’s theories provide the principle theoretical framework for the study. Whilst the managers narrated a fantasy of having a ‘true’ and coherent self, the research illustrated how fragile, fleeting and temporary each managerial self is and how passionately attached to their managerial subjectivity (despite how painful) they were. Emotion is presented as inextricably tied up with gender performativity and managerial subjectivity; despite best efforts the emotional ‘dirt’ of organizations cannot be ordered away; there is a constant seepage and spillage of emotion – as illustrated in the vignettes and profiled in the Butlerian deconstruction. During organizational change there was a fear of a social (organizational) death and even the most senior of managers were profoundly vulnerable. This fear and vulnerability heightened in contact with others perceived as more powerful (in critical conversations and interviews). Failure to receive the desired recognition and the risk of being organizationally unintelligible compounded this vulnerability and triggered recurrent, unpredictable patterns of loss, ek-stasis and unravelling of the managerial self. This acute vulnerability during restructuring anticipates and therefore (re) enacts a Machiavellian discourse, one that excuses unethical behaviour and relations as a ‘necessary evil’.

Virtually the entire body of scholarly literature on professional sport focuses on athletes themselves, rarely directly considering the impact of sport on the significant others in their lives or the role these significant others play in the career path and decision-making processes of athletes. In recent years, a limited, but growing, body of scholarly literature on athlete’s wives and sport marriages has begun to emerge with respect to American sports. However, little work has been done on the role and experiences of football spouses in the Canadian context. This dissertation focuses on football spouses in the Canadian Football League (CFL). I use an ethnographic approach relying on in-depth interview with football spouses from the CFL to explore how they experience their partners’ football careers, with a focus on their identity construction. I also used participant observation (at training camp and football related events) to gather data and collected and analyzed secondary documents (newspaper articles, blogs, tweets). Working from an interactionist perspective, I offer the empirically grounded concept of a “courtesy identity” to explain how these women confront the challenges of being known through their intimate relationships. I argue that these women are active agents who negotiate how much they are willing to transform themselves to meet the demands of football life. The “football wife” identity is always emerging and changing in response to the messages women receive about being a football wife during their interactions with others (both insiders and outsiders in the social world of the CFL) and as they encounter new situations. I demonstrate this argument by exploring: (a) how these women develop the football wife identity by focusing on their day-to-day private lives; (b) how the spousal subculture helps these women to negotiate the challenges of being a football wife while at the same time creating challenges of its own; and, (c) how football spouses negotiate their husbands’ celebrity status by examining how these women manage their presentation of the football wife identity in public. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

No description available.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Clovis Ecco.pdf: 799435 bytes, checksum: 257b2cf8028be51f75fe333e1d081058 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-15 / This text is about the cultural construction of the male supremacy. It aim to understand the influence of the religious ideas in the construction of the sort identity. To reach this objective, we look for to understand the influence of the religion in the social construction of the masculinities and, also, to understand the social and religious reasons that propitiate the institution of the masculine supremacy hierarchic. Speaking about of masculinities estimates that means to speak of objectivity, responsibility, tradition, power, steps, virility, these expressions they means to be able in the social interrelation of sort. Such affirmations find cultural and historical endorsement in the philosophy and the theology. The domination is understood in this work as characteristic trace of the relations of hierarchy sort. Our tradition culture has presented the idea that the sacred one for excellence, God, is a masculine entity, with patriarchies traces. The result of this cultural construction is the predominant characteristic of the masculine identity of sort, today, the conception is the man as dominator. / Esta dissertação versa sobre a construção cultural da supremacia masculina. Visa compreender a influência das idéias religiosas na construção da identidade de gênero. Para atingir este objetivo, procuramos compreender a influência da religião na construção social da masculinidade e, também, compreender os motivos sociais e religiosos que propiciam a instituição da supremacia hierárquica masculina. Falar de masculinidade pressupõe falar de objetividade, responsabilidade, tradição, potência, providência, virilidade, expressões estas que significam poder na inter-relação social de gênero. Tais afirmações encontram respaldo cultural e histórico na filosofia e na teologia. A dominação é entendida, neste trabalho, como traço característico das relações de gênero hierarquizado. Nossa tradição cultural tem apresentado a idéia de que o sagrado por excelência, Deus, é uma entidade masculina, com traços patriarcais. O resultado dessa construção cultural é que a característica predominante da identidade de gênero masculina, hoje, é a concepção do homem como dominador.

This thesis explores the increasing medicalization of society, the process whereby social phenomenon are transformed into medical problems. Alike the general tendency of neuropsychiatric diagnoses, the number of people with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) has increased and expanded from a boys’ diagnosis to include both adult men and women. Studies on the latter category is however scarce. The objective of the thesis is to contribute with a micro sociological and critical perspective on the effects of the biomedicalization process, by focusing women's experience of getting and living with ADHD. The empirical material consists of narrative interviews with sixteen women, diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood. The participants, age 20 to 50, were enrolled via Swedish NGOs in 2010 and 2013. The thesis resides on four analytical themes: biomedicalization, pharmaceuticalizaton, functionality and gender. It shows how diagnostics evokes processes that involve learning and using a biomedical terminology to describe and understand oneself. ADHD is, in general, depicted as diffuse, expansionary, masculine and deviant sociability and cognitivity. Unlike depression and anxiety, described as temporary and unwanted illnesses, the ADHD-diagnosis embraces the whole personality. Hence, the women find it difficult to identifying and separating ADHD from the self. Furthermore, categorizations of oneself as a ‘woman with ADHD’ imply constructions of individual and collective identity that has ideological implications, i.e. the individual narratives are related to grand narratives. These contradictory grand narratives bring about ideological dilemmas that are handled rhetorically in the women's everyday life. The masculine connotation of ADHD, for example, render the women experiencing themselves as transgressing not only femininity but also ADHD-personhood. Additionally, as social actions are attributed to the ‘ADHD brain’, the brain is portrayed as a pathological deviant and dysfunctional object for pharmaceutical intervention. Nevertheless, this discourse is also contested by the women by pointing to 1) positive aspects of the ‘ADHD-brain’ in everyday life, or 2) gender inequalities and demands of the late-modern society. Concluding, the women in this study are not only victims of their bodies or societal norms, but also agents negotiating – adapting and opposing to – expectations of how to be an ideal citizen or woman.

Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-142).

A dissertação analisa a presença e a atuação de mulheres negras na representação política no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, tomando como base de comparação as duas últimas eleições, de 2002 e 2006. Nestas eleições consideram-se as candidatas aos cargos de deputada estadual, de deputada federal e, no caso da eleição do ano de 2006, também a disputa para o cargo de senadora. O trabalho visa se inserir num cenário mais amplo que é o da representação política negra e feminina, diminuta quantativamente no país. Assim, a problemática analisada é a incorporação ou não de bandeiras feministas e anti-racistas pelas candidatas. Os instrumentos utilizados para esta análise foram o Horário Gratuito de Propaganda Eleitoral destas duas eleições e as entrevistas com candidatas negras que participaram da pesquisa qualitativa. A partir desta ótica, são consideradas questões pragmáticas que envolvem a busca pela eleição e as perspectivas de gênero que se inserem no campo da disputa eleitoral, um espaço tradicionalmente ocupado por homens brancos. A dissertação conclui indicando que o evidenciamento e o reconhecimento racial é tímido em disputas eleitorais o que não acontece com a perspectiva de gênero - , mas não significa a negação destes. / The dissertation analyzes the presence and the performance of black women in the representation politics in the State of Rio de Janeiro, taking as base of comparison the two last elections, 2002 and 2006. In these elections the candidates to the positions of state deputy consider themselves, of representative and, in the case of the election of the year of 2006, also the dispute for the senator position. The work aims at to insert itself in a scene ampler than it is of the representation the politics black and, feminine miniature quantitatively in the country. Thus, the problematic one analyzed is the incorporation or not of flags feminists and anti-racists for the candidates. The instruments used for this analysis had been the Gratuitous Schedule of Electoral Propaganda of these two elections and the interviews with black candidates who had participated of the qualitative research. From this optics, pragmatic questions are considered that involve the search for the election and the gender perspectives that if they insert in the field of the electoral dispute, a traditionally busy space for white men. The dissertation concludes indicating that the evidence and the racial recognition are shy in electoral disputes - what does not happen with the gender perspective -, but does not mean the negation of these.

A dissertação analisa a presença e a atuação de mulheres negras na representação política no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, tomando como base de comparação as duas últimas eleições, de 2002 e 2006. Nestas eleições consideram-se as candidatas aos cargos de deputada estadual, de deputada federal e, no caso da eleição do ano de 2006, também a disputa para o cargo de senadora. O trabalho visa se inserir num cenário mais amplo que é o da representação política negra e feminina, diminuta quantativamente no país. Assim, a problemática analisada é a incorporação ou não de bandeiras feministas e anti-racistas pelas candidatas. Os instrumentos utilizados para esta análise foram o Horário Gratuito de Propaganda Eleitoral destas duas eleições e as entrevistas com candidatas negras que participaram da pesquisa qualitativa. A partir desta ótica, são consideradas questões pragmáticas que envolvem a busca pela eleição e as perspectivas de gênero que se inserem no campo da disputa eleitoral, um espaço tradicionalmente ocupado por homens brancos. A dissertação conclui indicando que o evidenciamento e o reconhecimento racial é tímido em disputas eleitorais o que não acontece com a perspectiva de gênero - , mas não significa a negação destes. / The dissertation analyzes the presence and the performance of black women in the representation politics in the State of Rio de Janeiro, taking as base of comparison the two last elections, 2002 and 2006. In these elections the candidates to the positions of state deputy consider themselves, of representative and, in the case of the election of the year of 2006, also the dispute for the senator position. The work aims at to insert itself in a scene ampler than it is of the representation the politics black and, feminine miniature quantitatively in the country. Thus, the problematic one analyzed is the incorporation or not of flags feminists and anti-racists for the candidates. The instruments used for this analysis had been the Gratuitous Schedule of Electoral Propaganda of these two elections and the interviews with black candidates who had participated of the qualitative research. From this optics, pragmatic questions are considered that involve the search for the election and the gender perspectives that if they insert in the field of the electoral dispute, a traditionally busy space for white men. The dissertation concludes indicating that the evidence and the racial recognition are shy in electoral disputes - what does not happen with the gender perspective -, but does not mean the negation of these.

The thesis deals with choices made by women on maternity leave living in Prague, predominantly in the area of work and family life. Women's choices do not always represent their preferences and are strongly influenced by the institutional conditions and family interests. Women's preferences are also determined by the idea of maternity preferred by them- Another focus of the thesis is the construction of symbolic boundaries between mothers and childless women. Mothers differentiate themselves from childless women based on moral criteria and from each other based on the understanding of motherhood. Mothers tend to describe maternity leave as a happy period and do not think of it as of a loss of freedom or a sacrifice. However, they admit that long-term maternity leave is stereotypical and can induce feelings of isolation. For that reason, a part of women try to break free, at least partially, from the childcare and return into the realm of adults.

No description available.