DOING GENDER OR UNDOING GENDER? GENDER CONSTRUCTION AND SPATIAL INTERACTION OF FEMALE PROFESSIONALS IN HOTELS
LIU Ting-ting1, LIU Wei-wei2, LI Mi-mi2
1. College of Tourism and Service Management in Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China;
2. School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China
Abstract：Grounded on the theoretical strands of doing gender and feminist geography, this study investigates the gendering process of female hotel professionals at their home sphere and workspace. Doing and undoing gender of female labor highly depends on the interplay between social fields and the stage of career. First, entry-level female staff in the hotel believe that how to properly doing gender in the workplace is an important matter for constant exploration and negotiation in the early stages of their careers. Second, undoing gender will not be universal in the work or family field of every female professional. Middle-level and high-level employees generally face the dilemma of breaking through gender stereotypes. Third, female professionals who arrive at high-level positions in the hotel choose to return to do gender through the undoing gender in the family field, or the weakening of the gender contradiction between the family and the work field. In the process of spatial interaction, female professionals challenge and change gender-related norms and attributes, interpreting gender disciplines and exercises in different spaces and career development stages. From a theoretical perspective, this study challenges such notion and reveals that gender cannot be viewed independently from a solely space or single stage. Instead, gender should be viewed as a whole outcome from the process of negotiation between active individuals and multiple social spaces. Furthermore, undoing gender does not happen without the existing sexual regimes. Agency never disappear in doing and undoing gender approach.
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