84
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Male(Volent) Medicine: Tensions and Contradictions In The Gendered Re/Construction of The Medical Profession in South Africa

&
Pages 36-53 | Published online: 14 Jun 2013

References

  • Acker , J 1999 . ‘ Gender and Organizations ’. In Chafetz J.S. ed.). “ Handbook of the Sociology of Gender ”. New York : Kluwer Academic .
  • Acker , J. 2006 . Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class and Race in Organisations . Gender and Society , 20 ( 4 ) : 441 – 464 .
  • Adams , T.L. 2005 . Feminization of Professions: The Case of Women in Dentistry . Canadian Journal of Sociology , 30 ( 1 ) : 71 – 94 .
  • Anspach , R.R. 1988 . Notes on the Sociology of Medical Discourse: The Language of Case Presentation . Journal of Health and Social Behaviour , 29 ( 4 ) : 357 – 375 .
  • Apker , J. and Eggly , S. 2004 . Communicating Professional Identity in Medical Socialisation: Considering the Ideological Discourse of Morning Report . Qualitative Health Research , 14 : 411
  • Basit , T.N. 2003 . Manual or Electronic? The Role of Coding in Qualitative Data Analysis . Educational Research , 45 ( 2 ) : 143 – 154 .
  • Boutin-Foster , C. , Foster , J.C. and Konopasek , L. 2008 . Viewpoint: Physician, Know Thyself: The Professional Culture of Medicine as a Framework for Teaching Cultural Competence . Acad Med , 83 ( 1 ) : 106 – 111 .
  • Breier , M. and Wildschut , A. 2008 . Changing Gender Profile of Medical Schools in South Africa . South African Medical Journal , 98 ( 7 ) : 557 – 560 .
  • Cassell , J. 2000 . The Woman in the Surgeon's Body , Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Charles , M. 2003 . Deciphering Sex Segregation: Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Ten National Labor Markets . Acta Sociologica , 46 : 267 – 287 .
  • Connell , R.W. 2000 . The Men and the Boys , Cambridge : Polity Press .
  • Connell , R.W. and Messerschmidt , J.W. 2005 . Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept . Gender and Society , 19 ( 6 ) : 829 – 859 .
  • Conley , F. 1993 . Toward a More Perfect World: Eliminating Sexual Discrimination in Academic Medicine . New England Journal of Medicine , 328 : 351 – 352 .
  • Davies , C. 1996 . The Sociology of Professions and the Profession of Gender . Sociology , 30 ( 4 ) : 661 – 678 .
  • Deech , R 13 October 2009 London . ‘ Women Doctors: Making a Difference ’. Report of the Chair of the National Working Group on Women in medicine .
  • De Villiers , P.J.T. and De Villiers , M.R. 1999 . The Current Status and Future Needs of Education and Training in Family Medicine and Primary Care in South Africa . Medical Education , 33 : 716 – 721 .
  • Evans , J.F. 2003 . Contradictions and Tensions: Exploring Relations of Masculinities in the Numerically Female-Dominated Nursing Profession . Journal of Men's Studies , 11 ( 3 ) : 277
  • Frehill , L.M. 2004 . The Gendered Construction of the Engineering Profession in the United States, 1893–1920 . Men and Masculinities , 6 : 383 – 403 .
  • Gill , R. and Scharff , C. 2011 . New Femininities: Post-Feminism, Neoliberalism & Subjectivity , Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan .
  • Gjerberg , E. 2001 . Medical Women – Towards Full Integration? An Analysis of the Speciality Choices Made by Two Cohorts of Norwegian doctors . Social Science and Medicine , 52 : 331 – 343 .
  • Gjerberg , E. 2002 . Gender Similarities in Doctors’ Preferences – And Gender Differences in Final Specialization . Social Science and Medicine , 54 : 591 – 605 .
  • Hacking , I. 1999 . The Social Construction of What? , Cambridge : Harvard University Press .
  • Hamstra , S.J. , Woodrow , S.I. and Mangrulkar , R.S. 2007 . Feeling Pressure to Stay Late: Socialisation and Professional Identity Formation in Graduate Medical Education . Medical Education , 42 : 7 – 9 .
  • Harding , S. 1991 . Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives , Ithaca , New York : Cornell University Press .
  • Harding , S. 1997 . Comment on Hekman's “Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited”: Whose Standpoint Needs the Regimes of Truth And Reality? . Signs , 22 ( 2 ) : 382 – 391 .
  • Hinze , S. 1999 . Gender and the Body of Medicine or at Least Some Body Parts: Reconstructing the Prestige Hierarchy of Medical Specialties . The Sociological Quarterly , 40 ( 2 ) : 217 – 239 .
  • Holmboe , E. , Ginsburg , S. and Bernabeo , E. 2011 . The Rotational Approach to Medical Education: Time to Confront our Assumptions? . Medical Education , 45 : 69 – 80 .
  • Jaye , C. , Egan , T. and Parker , S. 2006 . Do as I Say, not as I Do: Medical Education and Foucault's Normalising Technologies of Self . Anthropology & Medicine , 13 ( 2 ) : 141 – 155 .
  • Kerfoot , D. and Knights , D. 1993 . Management Masculinity and Manipulation: From Paternalism to Corporate Strategy in Financial Services in Britain . Journal of Management Studies , 30 ( 4 ) : 659 – 677 .
  • Kerfoot , D. and Knights , D. 1998 . Managing Masculinity in Contemporary Organisational Life: A Man(agerial) Project . Organisation , 5 ( 1 ) : 7 – 26 .
  • Lester , J. 2008 . Performing Gender in the Workplace: Gender Socialisation, Power and Identity among Women Faculty Members . Community College Review , 35 : 277
  • Lindberg , O. 2009 . Undergraduate Socialisation in Medical Education: Ideals of Professional Physicians’ Practice . Learning in Health and Social Care , 8 ( 4 ) : 241 – 249 .
  • Martin , S.C. , Arnold , R.M. and Parker , R.M. 1988 . Gender and Medical Socialisation . Journal of Health and Social Behaviour , 29 ( 4 ) : 333 – 343 .
  • Mason , J. 2002 . Qualitative Researching , Second edition , London : Sage publications .
  • Mclean , V. and Rozier , C. 2009 . From Sport Culture to the Social World of the “Good PT”: Masculinities and the Career Development of Physical Therapists . Men and Masculinities , 11 : 286 – 306 .
  • Pillay , V. 2007 . Academic Mothers , Oakhill : Trentham Books Limited .
  • Pitkala , K.H. and Mantyranta , T. 2003 . Professional Socialisation Revised: Medical Students’ Own Conceptions Related to Adoption of the Future Physician's Role – A Qualitative Study . Medical Teacher , 25 ( 2 ) : 155 – 160 .
  • Rao , A. , Stuart , R. and Kelleher , D. 1999 . Gender at Work: Organisational Change for Equality , Bloomfield : Kumarian Press .
  • Reskin , B.F. and Roos , P.A. 1990 . Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations , Philadelphia : Temple University Press .
  • Riska , E 1993 . ‘ The Medical Profession in the Nordic Countries ’. In Hafferty , F.W. & McKinlay , J.B The Changing Character of the Medical Profession: An International Perspective . New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Riska , E. 2001 . Towards Gender Balance: But Will Women Physicians Have an Impact on Medicine? . Social Science and Medicine , 52 : 179 – 187 .
  • Riska , E. 2008 . ‘ The feminization thesis: Discourses on Gender and Medicine ,’ Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research NORA , 16 1 : 3 – 18 . March
  • Sevenhuijsen , S. , Bozalek , V. , Gouws , A. and Minnaar-McDonald , M. 2003 . South African Social Welfare Policy: An Analysis Using the Ethic of Care . Critical Social Policy , 23 ( 3 ) : 299 – 321 .
  • Simpson , R. 2004 . Masculinity at Work: The Experiences of Men in Female Dominated Occupations . Work Employment Society , 18 : 349 – 368 .
  • Szymczak , J.E. and Bosk , C.L. 2012 . Training for Efficiency: Work, Time and Systems-Based Practice in Medical Residency . Journal of Health & Social Behaviour , 53 ( 3 ) : 344 – 358 .
  • Tesch , B.J. , Wood , H.M. , Helwig , A.L. and Nattinger , A.B. 1995 . Promotion of Women Physicians in Academic Medicine: Glass Ceiling or Sticky Floor? . Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) , 273 ( 13 ) : 1022 – 1025 .
  • Walker , L. 2003 . They Heal in the Spirit of the Mother: Gender, Race and Professionalisation of South African Medical Women . African Studies , 62 ( 1 ) : 99 – 123 .
  • Walker , L. 2005 . The Colour White: Racial and Gendered Closure in the South African Medical Profession . Ethnic and Racial Studies , 28 ( 2 ) : 348 – 375 .
  • Watts , M.J. 2005 . On the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Horizontal and Vertical Occupational Gender Segregation . European Sociological Review , 21 : 481 – 488 .
  • Wildschut , A. 2008 . Motivating for a Gendered Analysis of Trends within SA Medical Schools and the Profession . South African Journal of Higher Education , 22 ( 6 ) : 920 – 932 .
  • Wildschut , A. 2010 . Exploring Internal Segregation in the South African Medical Profession . Journal of Workplace Learning , 22 ( 1/2 ) : 53 – 66 .
  • Wynchank , S . ‘ Women Medical Doctors in South Africa: Transcultural and Other Influences Before, During and After Apartheid ’. [Online] Available: www2.univ-reunion.fr/ageof (accessed 1 November 2004) .
  • Zetka , J.R. 2003 . Surgeons and the Scope , Ithaca : Cornell University Press .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.