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Download fileReflexive self-identity and work: working women, biographical disruption and agency
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posted on 2020-04-24, 14:08 authored by Diane Trusson, Clive TrussonClive Trusson, Catherine CaseyCatherine CaseyThe article examines how women workers reflexively shape their self-identities and work
identities following a significant biographical disruption incurred by breast cancer diagnosis
and treatment. Based on interviews with 22 women navigating their post-diagnosis life
course, the article addresses participants’ challenges in their relationships with paid
employment, their responses, and self-identity narratives. It finds that women strive to revise
and innovate their self-identity and work identity in the midst of personal and social
constraints in working life. They craft their cancer disruptive experiences into new
developments of who they are, and want to be, as persons and as workers. Multiple
intersectional features of participants’ work-related self-identity are identified, including
reassessment of priorities, capabilities, and workplace relations.
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School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Work, Employment and SocietyVolume
35Issue
1Pages
116 - 136Publisher
SAGE PublicationsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2020-04-18Publication date
2020-07-08Copyright date
2020ISSN
0950-0170eISSN
1469-8722Publisher version
Language
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