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Women’s work and the library: ideological shaping of a feminized profession

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dc.contributor.authorRevitt, Eva
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-17
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T01:43:59Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T01:43:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractOverwhelmingly, librarians working at Canadian universities are considered academic staff, if not faculty. However, the role and fit of the academic librarian within the academic enterprise is overshadowed and frequently misunderstood. As alt-academics, librarians' expertise and contribution to the university's academic mission is often sidelined: the nature of the work too frequently viewed through an organizational rather than an academic lens and characterized as preoccupied with a structured set of regularized responsibilities. Drawing on the findings of my doctoral research, an institutional ethnography of librarians' work experiences as academic staff, this article argues that social relations such as those that construct work value are historically rotted and ideologically determined. I propose that our speech, text, and talk, indeed our social consciousness, is permeated by two ideological codes—women's work and the library—that structure librarians' labour in a particular way. Ultimately, I link the devaluation of librarians' work to the necessary gendered exploitation of labour that happens within a capitalist mode of production.
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dc.identifier.citationRevitt., E. (2020). Women’s work and the library: Ideological shaping of a feminized profession. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 15(1), 22-34. https://doi.org/10.20355/jcie29391
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.20355/jcie29391
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/2351
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution (CC BY)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCanadian universities
dc.subjectacademic librarian
dc.subjectregularized responsibilities
dc.subjectlibrarians' work experiences
dc.subjectwork value
dc.subjectwomen's work
dc.subjectgendered exploitation
dc.subjectcapitalist mode of production
dc.subjectdevaluation
dc.subjectlibrarians' labour
dc.titleWomen’s work and the library: ideological shaping of a feminized professionen
dc.typeArticle

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