Performing Gender at Work by Elisabeth Kelan

Author:Elisabeth Kelan
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Talking about the future

In the following section I look at the resources available to people to talk about their future lives. A similar strategy was used by Edley and Wetherell (1999) when they asked young men how they expected their lives to take shape in relation to families. They were thus able to highlight which options the gender ideologies seem to offer and how these young men negotiated these options. In my research I was interested in people’s projected working life, but it became clear that although gendered resources were mobilised in relation to the past, these resources appeared to be missing when people talked about the future. When people talked about their futures, gender rarely played a role. This is particularly striking when the past seems to have gendered structures.

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