Gendering occupations: Persistence and resistance of gender presumptions about members of particular healthcare professions

Gender and Language

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 100-120

  Ekberg, Katie ^a   Ekberg, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Categorisation; Conversation analysis; Gender presumptions; Healthcare interactions; Person reference; Repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017559391     PISSN: 17476321     EISSN: 1747633X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/genl.24082     Document Type: Article

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