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342 - Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender Paper Session. Embodied Labor and Intersectional Inequalities (co-sponsored with the Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work)

Mon, August 22, 8:30 to 10:10am, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

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The proposed panel will examine the impact of embodied labor on intersectional inequalities. The use of the body to generate symbols, feelings and relationships as part of paid employment is of growing interest to both scholars of intersectionality and of organizations, occupations and work. A growing number of occupations adopt explicit rules, as well as implicit norms, for how to present the body as part of work activity, as workers are used as symbolic vehicles to represent firms and consolidate relationships with consumers. These "body rules" are often presented as neutral but in fact convey messages about race, class and gender while also reproducing inequalities. Papers should examine some dimension of aesthetic or embodied work.

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