Gender and the Public Sector (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415439809 ISBN 13: 9780415439800

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Drawing on sociology and social policy, this intriguing volume considers gender and professional identity from a variety of perspectives, including feminism and post-modernism.

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About the Author

Jim Barry is a political sociologist and Reader at the University of East London, based in the East London Business School. Current research interests include gender and managerialism in higher education as well as in the public sector more generally. He has published on gender and politics, gender and public service, gender and organisations, gender and work stress, gender and business ethics, lone parenting and employment, and gender, managerialism and higher education.
Mike Dent is Professor of Health Care Organisation, Staffordshire University. Currently his main research is the comparative study of medical and nursing work, professional and health care organisation and accountability across Europe. He also retains an interest in health care computing and information systems. He has published a number of articles on these topics as well as three books.
Maggie O'Neill is Reader in Sociology at Staffordshire University. Currently her main research interest focuses upon developing participatory action research with marginalised communities and integrating theory and praxis through renewing methodologies by the use of visual/creative methods. She continues to work on prostitution and is developing expertise in the area of forced migration through her work with refugees, asylum seekers and the organisations and agencies supporting these groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415439809
• ISBN 13: 9780415439800
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Barry Jim, Dent Mike, O'Neill Maggie