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So you think you're tough? Getting serious about gender in mining (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499137743)
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xThe mining industry has been tackling the issue of gender for almost 25 years. But very little has changed.
So you think you're tough: Getting serious about gender in mining brings together many of Dean Laplonge's ideas and consulting experiences on gender and mining. In this book, he criticises the mining industry's obsession with "women in mining", and bemoans the lack of attention that is paid in this industry to broader research on gender.
Drawing on ideas from the fields of gender studies and cultural studies, Dean creates a new vision for gender in the mining industry which promises to break through the current impasse. Out is the old view of gender which relies on a distinct separation of men from women. And in comes a new view of gender which focuses on multiple and diverse ways of acting out as men and women. The shift appears simple, as we move from being genders to doing genders. But the application in the mining industry is proving to be difficult, not least because it demands we think about gender in terms of men and masculinities.
This book provides practical ways for mining companies to start introducing this new vision of gender into their workplaces. By focusing on the relationships between gender and safety, and gender and leadership, Dean argues we can begin to understand how mining is already gendered. And we can then finally start to develop real gender diversity on mine sites.
Author: Dean Laplonge
ISBN-10: 1499137745
ISBN-13: 9781499137743
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2014
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
So you think you're tough: Getting serious about gender in mining brings together many of Dean Laplonge's ideas and consulting experiences on gender and mining. In this book, he criticises the mining industry's obsession with "women in mining", and bemoans the lack of attention that is paid in this industry to broader research on gender.
Drawing on ideas from the fields of gender studies and cultural studies, Dean creates a new vision for gender in the mining industry which promises to break through the current impasse. Out is the old view of gender which relies on a distinct separation of men from women. And in comes a new view of gender which focuses on multiple and diverse ways of acting out as men and women. The shift appears simple, as we move from being genders to doing genders. But the application in the mining industry is proving to be difficult, not least because it demands we think about gender in terms of men and masculinities.
This book provides practical ways for mining companies to start introducing this new vision of gender into their workplaces. By focusing on the relationships between gender and safety, and gender and leadership, Dean argues we can begin to understand how mining is already gendered. And we can then finally start to develop real gender diversity on mine sites.
Author: Dean Laplonge
ISBN-10: 1499137745
ISBN-13: 9781499137743
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2014
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
By Dean Laplonge
xDean Laplonge is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney; and a committee member for the Gender Sector Study which forms part of the Mining Industry Human Resource Council's (MiHR) Sectoral Initiative Program - Labour Market Intelligence project in Canada. He has completed extensive research and work in the fields of safety communications and gender for government departments and resource companies.
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