Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization - Couverture souple

Kleinman, Sherryl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226440052 ISBN 13 : 9780226440057

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1996

Synopsis

Opposing Ambitions Using a case study of a holistic health centre, "Renewal", this book offers lessons on understanding the problems women face in organizations, the failure of social movements to live up to their ideals, and how it is possible for progressiveness to avoid perpetuating the inequalities it opposes. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Renewal" is a holistic health center run by baby boomers whose political ideals were shaped by the counterculture movements of the 1960s. Through interviews and observation, Sherryl Kleinman takes us inside Renewal and shows us how its members struggled to maintain a view of themselves as progressive and alternative even as they sought conventional legitimacy.

In Opposing Ambitions we meet the members of Renewal as individuals; learn about the differences in power, prestige, and respect they are accorded; why they talked endlessly about money; and how they related to each other. Kleinman shows how members' attempts to see themselves as unconventional, but also as serious operators of a legitimate health care organization, led them to act in ways that undermined their egalitarian goals. She draws out the lessons Renewal offers for understanding the problems women face in organizations, the failure of social movements to live up to their ideals, and how it is possible for progressives to avoid reproducing the inequalities they claim to oppose.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0226440052
• ISBN 13: 9780226440057
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160