David Morgan is from NTNU in Norway, Keele University in the UK, and is Professor Emeritus at Manchester University, UK. Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande are both Professors of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU, Norway.

’The joy of this book is the stories of various forms of work that extend our understanding of gender and bodily engagement in the world. I highly recommend this book to occupational scientists. There are many thought-provoking ideas to apply to insights in occupational science.’ Journal of Occupational Science

• Contents: Thinking about gender, bodies and work, David Morgan, Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande. Theorising Gender, Bodies and Work; Gender, Bodies, Work: Re-reading Texts, David Morgan; Embodying emotional labour, David Knights and Torkild Thanem. Embodying Gendered Labour; Gendered bodies and boundary setting in the airline industry, Ulla Forseth; Gut feeling, back-slapping - gendered embodiment on the exchange, Bente Rasmussen; Embodying male workers as fathers in flexible working life, Elin Kvande; The gendered embodiment of agricultural work: nature, machinery and patriarchy, Berit Brandth and Marit S. Haugen; Embodied gender talks - the gendered discourse of tiredness, Karin Widerberg. Gender and Body Work: Gender and care: the role of cultural ideas of dirt and disgust, Lise Widding Isaksen; Men, bodies and nursing, Rannveig Dahle; All foetuses created equal? Constructing foetal, maternal and professional bodies with obstetric ultrasound, Ann Rudinow Soetnan; Lonely heroes and great white Gods: medical stories, masculine stories, Kathy Davis. Index.

David Morgan is from NTNU in Norway, Keele University in the UK, and is Professor Emeritus at Manchester University, UK. Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande are both Professors of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU, Norway.

’The joy of this book is the stories of various forms of work that extend our understanding of gender and bodily engagement in the world. I highly recommend this book to occupational scientists. There are many thought-provoking ideas to apply to insights in occupational science.’ Journal of Occupational Science

• Contents: Thinking about gender, bodies and work, David Morgan, Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande. Theorising Gender, Bodies and Work; Gender, Bodies, Work: Re-reading Texts, David Morgan; Embodying emotional labour, David Knights and Torkild Thanem. Embodying Gendered Labour; Gendered bodies and boundary setting in the airline industry, Ulla Forseth; Gut feeling, back-slapping - gendered embodiment on the exchange, Bente Rasmussen; Embodying male workers as fathers in flexible working life, Elin Kvande; The gendered embodiment of agricultural work: nature, machinery and patriarchy, Berit Brandth and Marit S. Haugen; Embodied gender talks - the gendered discourse of tiredness, Karin Widerberg. Gender and Body Work: Gender and care: the role of cultural ideas of dirt and disgust, Lise Widding Isaksen; Men, bodies and nursing, Rannveig Dahle; All foetuses created equal? Constructing foetal, maternal and professional bodies with obstetric ultrasound, Ann Rudinow Soetnan; Lonely heroes and great white Gods: medical stories, masculine stories, Kathy Davis. Index.

David Morgan is from NTNU in Norway, Keele University in the UK, and is Professor Emeritus at Manchester University, UK. Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande are both Professors of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU, Norway.

’The joy of this book is the stories of various forms of work that extend our understanding of gender and bodily engagement in the world. I highly recommend this book to occupational scientists. There are many thought-provoking ideas to apply to insights in occupational science.’ Journal of Occupational Science

• Contents: Thinking about gender, bodies and work, David Morgan, Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande. Theorising Gender, Bodies and Work; Gender, Bodies, Work: Re-reading Texts, David Morgan; Embodying emotional labour, David Knights and Torkild Thanem. Embodying Gendered Labour; Gendered bodies and boundary setting in the airline industry, Ulla Forseth; Gut feeling, back-slapping - gendered embodiment on the exchange, Bente Rasmussen; Embodying male workers as fathers in flexible working life, Elin Kvande; The gendered embodiment of agricultural work: nature, machinery and patriarchy, Berit Brandth and Marit S. Haugen; Embodied gender talks - the gendered discourse of tiredness, Karin Widerberg. Gender and Body Work: Gender and care: the role of cultural ideas of dirt and disgust, Lise Widding Isaksen; Men, bodies and nursing, Rannveig Dahle; All foetuses created equal? Constructing foetal, maternal and professional bodies with obstetric ultrasound, Ann Rudinow Soetnan; Lonely heroes and great white Gods: medical stories, masculine stories, Kathy Davis. Index.