naa a22 4500 510763006 CHVBK 20180411083146.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12186-013-9097-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12186-013-9097-1 Caring and Daring Discourses at Work: Doing Gender Through Occupational Choices in Elderly Care and Police Work [Elektronische Daten] [Andreas Fejes, Ulrika Haake] This paper aims to problematise how gender is being done—1. through occupational choices in two occupations that are traditionally gender divided, elderly care and police work, and 2. through the division of work assignments in police work. Interviews with care workers and police officers are analysed using a "doing gender” perspective, a post-structural notion of subjectivity inspired by Michel Foucault and positioning theory. We argue that a caring discourse operates in elderly care workers' and police officers' statements concerning occupational choices, while a daring discourse operates in statements concerning occupational choices within police work. Through these discourses, gender is being done in different ways; caring dispositions are constructed as totally female within the context of elderly care but as more gender-neutral in police work. At the same time, a macho or daring attitude is constructed as a male attribute in police work. Such constructions may have social consequences in terms of dividing work tasks for police, where male officers work in more prestigious and "dangerous” areas, while female officers are left with less prestigious, more caring-associated working areas. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Doing gender nationallicence Foucault nationallicence Elderly care work nationallicence Police work nationallicence Occupational choice nationallicence Fejes Andreas Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden aut Haake Ulrika Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden aut Vocations and Learning Springer Netherlands 6/2(2013-07-01), 281-295 1874-785X 6:2<281 2013 6 12186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12186-013-9097-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12186-013-9097-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fejes Andreas Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Haake Ulrika Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Vocations and Learning Springer Netherlands 6/2(2013-07-01), 281-295 1874-785X 6:2<281 2013 6 12186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer