Gender and Creative Labour

ISBN-13: 9781119062394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str.

B Conor

Opis

Gender and Creative Labour presents a collection of readings that reflect the latest research related to employment positions in a range of creative industries to show the gender implications of creative labour under contemporary neoliberal economic policies.

• Features contributions from a range of international experts
• Includes studies from the US, UK, Oceania and Europe
• Reveals the implications of contemporary femininities and masculinities for the precarious employment created under neoliberalism
• Addresses the additional burdens that women face in creative occupations

Spis treści

Series editor s acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Introduction

Gender and creative labour
Bridget Conor, Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Taylor

Part 2: Sexism, segregation and gender roles

Sex, gender and work segregation in the cultural industries
David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Baker

Unmanageable inequalities: sexism in the film industry
Deborah Jones and Judith K. Pringle

Part 3: Flexibility and informality
Getting in, getting on, getting out? Women as career scramblers in the UK film and television industries
Leung Wing–Fai, Rosalind Gill and Keith Randle

Labile labour gender, flexibility and creative work
George Morgan and Pariece Nelligan

Birds of a feather: informal recruitment practices and gendered outcomes for screenwriting work in the UK film industry
Natalie Wreyford

Part 4: Image–making and representation

Blowing your own trumpet: exploring the gendered dynamics of self–promotion in the classical music profession
Christina Scharff

Egotist , masochist , supplicant : Charlie and Donald Kaufman and the gendered screenwriter as creative worker
Bridget Conor

Genre anxiety: women travel writers experience of work
Ana Alacovska

The heroic body: toughness, femininity and the stunt double
Miranda J. Banks and Lauren Steimer

Part 5: Boundary–crossing

When Adam blogs: cultural work and the gender division of labour in Utopia
Ursula Huws

A new mystique?Working for yourself in the neoliberal economy
Stephanie Taylor

Hungry for the job: gender, unpaid internships, and the creative industries
Leslie Regan Shade and Jenna Jacobson

Notes on contributors

Index

O autorze

Bridget Conor is a Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King s College London. She is the author of Screenwriting: Creative Labour and Professional Practice (2014).

Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City University London. She is the author or editor of several books, including Gender and the Media (Polity, 2007).

Stephanie Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her books include Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work (with Karen Littleton) and Narratives of Identity and Place.

Blurb

The structural inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries are widely acknowledged yet to date there has been far too little consideration of the significance of gender for the burgeoning, precariously employed creative workforce of today s global economy.  Gender and Creative Labour presents a collection of the most recent research findings and debate related to various employment positions in a range of creative industries from film and television to music and publishing to reveal the implications of gender for creative labour under contemporary neoliberal economic policies. Featuring contributions from leading academics in international fields, the collection illuminates the gender–specific issues that mark the creative sector. These include the media–driven image–making and requirements for self–presentation that are at the core of many creative occupations, the significance of conventional representations for the vigilant self–monitoring required to shape workers creative biographies, and the extra burdens on women combining precarious employment with parenting responsibilities in an age of intensive mothering . Scholarly and thought–provoking, Gender and Creative Labour offers illuminating insights into the significance and workings of gender in the contemporary cultural and creative industries.