Body is an important subject in sociological literature. It is so important that iology of body has contributed to social theorieJ. Body appears as a mpetitive field which is controlled and changed by numerous power elements. Female body has an important role in this field. The female body has numerous characteristics though which mechanisms of consumption, power game and market place gain profits by encoding and forming it. This paper aims to investigate the female body and woman labor in the work place. The present research attempts to answer this question: How is female body encoded in work place? Our question was inspired looking at the manner of controlling the female body and its commodification at the work place. Grounded theory which is theoretically oriented has been used in this research. The method of collecting data is. studying documents and observation and the questionnaire. According to grounded theory, data has been encoded and conceptualized in some steps. Findings show that power makes female body an ideological medium by manipulating it, on the one hand, and the market commercializes female body for obtaining capital and profit, on the other.
Yazdkhasti, B., Babaei, J., & Dashti, Z. (2012). Encoding the Female Body at the Work Place. Women's Studies Sociological and Psychological, 10(3), 7-38. doi: 10.22051/jwsps.2012.1417
MLA
Behjat Yazdkhasti; Jamal Babaei; Zahra Dashti. "Encoding the Female Body at the Work Place". Women's Studies Sociological and Psychological, 10, 3, 2012, 7-38. doi: 10.22051/jwsps.2012.1417
HARVARD
Yazdkhasti, B., Babaei, J., Dashti, Z. (2012). 'Encoding the Female Body at the Work Place', Women's Studies Sociological and Psychological, 10(3), pp. 7-38. doi: 10.22051/jwsps.2012.1417
VANCOUVER
Yazdkhasti, B., Babaei, J., Dashti, Z. Encoding the Female Body at the Work Place. Women's Studies Sociological and Psychological, 2012; 10(3): 7-38. doi: 10.22051/jwsps.2012.1417
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