Abstracts
Abstract
This commentary offers an explanation for how and why the Dalhousie Dentistry scandal could occur in a society and time where traditional gender roles are seemingly being eradicated. We use Foucault’s modes of objectification, applied to an analysis of the use of “manhood acts” and in relation to the hidden curriculum, to argue that when women threaten the authority of men in health professions, men may subconsciously look for ways to re-exert an unequal and gendered subject-object binary.
Keywords:
- Dalhousie Dentistry,
- misogyny,
- health professions,
- sexual objectification,
- Foucault,
- manhood acts,
- hidden curriculum
Résumé
Ce commentaire explique comment et pourquoi un scandale, tel que celui de la Faculté de dentisterie de l’Université Dalhousie, peut se produire dans une société et une époque où les rôles traditionnels assignés aux femmes et aux hommes ont apparemment disparu. Nous nous référerons aux modes d’objectivation de Foucault, appliqué à une analyse de l’utilisation des « actes de virilité », en relation avec le curriculum dissimulé, pour faire valoir que, lorsque les femmes menacent l’autorité des hommes dans les professions de santé, les hommes peuvent inconsciemment chercher des moyens de ré-exercer une partition binaire sujet-objet, inégale et genrée.
Mots-clés :
- Dentisterie de Dalhousie,
- misogynie,
- professions de la santé,
- objectivation sexuelle,
- Foucault,
- actes de virilité,
- curriculum dissimulé
Appendices
Bibliography
- 1. Dalhousie University probes misogynistic student ‘Gentlemen’s Club’. CBC News. 2014 Dec 15.
- 2. Dalhousie dentistry students taught separately, senate mulls review. CBC News. 2015 Jan 12.
- 3. Chiose S. Dalhousie dentistry students scrambled to contain damage after comments became public. The Globe and Mail. 2015 Jan 9.
- 4. Dalhousie dentistry student calls restorative justice plan ‘shocking’. CBC News. 2014 Dec 18.
- 5. Foucault M. The subject and power. Crit Inq. 1982;8(4):777-795.
- 6. Schrock D, Schwalbe M. Men, masculinity, and manhood acts. Annu Rev Sociol. 2009;35(1):277-295.
- 7. Hafferty FW. Beyond curriculum reform: confronting medicine’s hidden curriculum. Acad Med. 1998;73(4):403-7.
- 8. Curtis J, Harrison L. Beneath the surface: Collaboration in alcohol and other drug treatment. An analysis using Foucault’s three modes of objectification. J Adv Nurs, 2001;34(6):737-744.
- 9. Rudman, L, Phelan, J. The effect of priming gender roles on women’s implicit gender beliefs and career aspirations. Social Psychology 2010;41(3):192-202.
- 10. Butler J. Gender trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge; 1990.
- 11. Pascoe CJ. Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkeley: University of California Press; 2007.
- 12. Bird SR. Welcome to the men’s club: homosociality and the maintenance of hegemonic masculinity. Gend Soc. 1996;10(1):120-32.
- 13. Martin PY, Hummer RA. Fraternities and rape on campus. Gend Soc. 1989;3(1):457-73.
- 14. Papadaki E. Feminist perspectives on objectification. In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Summer 2014 ed.
- 15. Nussbaum M. Objectification. Philos. Public Aff. 1995;24(4):249-291.
- 16. Beagan B. Micro inequities and everyday inequalities: “race,” gender, sexuality and class in medical school. Can J Sociol. 2001;26(4):583-610.
- 17. Eyre L. The discursive framing of sexual harassment in a university community. Gend Educ. 2000;12(3):293-307.