- Title
- Femininity work: The gendered politics of women managing violence in bar work
- Creator
- Coffey, Julia; Farrugia, David; Gill, Rosalind; Threadgold, Steven; Sharp, Megan; Adkins, Lisa
- Relation
- ARC.DP190102103 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102103
- Relation
- Gender, Work and Organization Vol. 30, Issue 5, p. 1694-1708
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13006
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- This paper explores how women bar workers manage violence at work. Women bar workers in our study described that the capacity to recognize, intervene, and defuse potentially violent situations was a pragmatic response to the problem of men's violence in the night-time economy. We analyze the gendered norms and expectations at play in how violence in bar work is managed by staff and locate this as a form of “femininity work” extending from the modes of attentive, emotionally-attuned femininity that labor feminist labor studies theorists have described. In a context where hospitality labor already makes complex and often unexamined demands on young workers, the positioning of women bar staff as being more adept at managing violent situations suggests a particularly important demand made of women bar workers, central for understanding the enduring gendered power relations in contemporary interactive service labor.
- Subject
- gender; inequality; night-time economy; service labor; violence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1485424
- Identifier
- uon:51592
- Identifier
- ISSN:0968-6673
- Rights
- © 2023 The Authors. Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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