The Work Calls for Men: The Social Construction of Professionalism and Professional Education for Librarianship

Autor/in	Stauffer, Suzanne M.
Titel	The Work Calls for Men: The Social Construction of Professionalism and Professional Education for Librarianship
Quelle	In: Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 57 (2016) 4, S.311-324 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0748-5786
Schlagwörter	Professionalism; Professional Education; Library Science; Intellectual History; Educational History; Educational Development; Advisory Committees; African American Students; War; Masculinity; Gender Discrimination; Racial Discrimination; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Professionalität; Berufsausbildung; Bibliothekswissenschaft; Geistesgeschichte; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsentwicklung; Beratungsstelle; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Krieg; Männlichkeit; Racial bias; Rassismus; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	The leaders of the library profession in the United States in the 19th century were white, middle-class, college-educated men. They attempted to construct librarianship in the United States as an equivalent profession to the other white, masculine professions of their day. They also created education for librarianship in the same mold. They subscribed to, and employed, the traditional white Western masculine definition of profession as one of expertise derived from education based on science. They also employed the control of knowledge and its application as exemplified by the type of professional education they promoted. Their efforts were not restricted to education but also included active discrimination against female librarians in the Library War Service during the First World War. This paper presents a new perspective on the meaning of "profession" which recognizes it as situated at the intersection of gender, race, and nationality and explores the implications for modern education for librarianship. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01