Women’s Work: Racism Revealed...
by Merle A. Jacobs (2013) [ISBN 978-1-894490-25-2] “This book is not only an excellent and up-to-date review of the literature on gender, race and work especially in reference to the nursing profession. Professor Jacobs builds on the strengths of previous research in developing an interdisciplinary explanation that implicates individuals, situations, organizations, and resource inadequacies. The inquiry is formidable, ambitious and provocative. I welcome it and I applaud its intellectual efforts. The arguments are well articulated within a plethora of themes based on social location, hybridity, cross- cultural communication, narratives of ideological climates as well as the mediations of culture and bureaucratic organizations.The review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature is impressively comprehensive and easy to follow. Dr Jacobs’s contributions are logically and rightfully insistent on imbricating intersectionalities to...
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