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Keynote presentation; Respectable hairdressers – Femininity and (vocational) identity among girls in vocational education and training for hairdressers
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Education and Teacher's Practice.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8038-4870
2022 (English)In: Vocational Education & Training Voices from Research VIII Stockholm International Conference & Research Workshop on VET. Stockolm -Helsinki. May 11-13, 2022. / [ed] Marianne Teräs, Lázaro Moreno Herrera, Janne Kontio & Emma West, 2022, p. 32-32Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Sustainable development
SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Abstract [en]

The aim of the dissertation presentation here is to contribute knowledge on how adolescent girls in VET for hairdressers negotiate and perform (vocational) identities from aclass- and gender perspective with special focus on femininity. This is done through ethnographical fieldwork. Theoretically the study is inspired by feminist poststructuralist theory together with theory of how working-class women act to become respectable.The main results show that the hairdresser student is positioned as a female entrepreneur, that is constructed through two different discourses. One depicts the vocation as a glamorous profession to love. The other as hard work, low wages, and a craft that requires many hours of education. One conclusion of the thesis is that traditionally feminine coded performances, such as caring,being nice, and doing good is reshaped in a neoliberal time where notions of a competitive, strong, and self-governing girl is the one that has become the ideal hairdresser. The position of a self-governing girl neglects issues of class and gender, since discourses of Girl Power position girls in a way that the individual subject owns their success, and that we are living in an equal society.

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2022. p. 32-32
Keywords [en]
Class, Ethnography, Femininity, Gender, Hairdressers, Vocational education and training (VET)
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Educational Sciences
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Pedagogics and Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-112988OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-112988DiVA, id: diva2:1659579
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Vocational Education & Training Voices from Research VIII Stockholm International Conference & Research Workshop on VET Stockholm- Helsinki May 11-13, 2022
Available from: 2022-05-20 Created: 2022-05-20 Last updated: 2022-12-13Bibliographically approved

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