Gender and forestry: A critical discourse analysis of forestry professions in Sweden
Gender and forestry: A critical discourse analysis of forestry professions in Sweden
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性别与林业：瑞典林业职业的批判性话语分析
DOI：
10.1080/02827580701504928
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Annika Egan Sjölander
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作者：
G. Lidestav;Annika Egan Sjölander
摘要本文采用话语分析的方法，探讨性别，即特定的男性或女性特质的概念，是如何与林业职业联系在一起的。引入动态性别化概念是为了更好地理解性别编码过程如何以及为什么在林业领域发生。这里的话语被理解为使用语言和其他符号形式（如视觉图像）的特定方式，它不是简单地反映或代表社会实体和关系，而是构建或构成它们。经验材料包括55个招聘广告的主管和护林员和142个文本和图像在瑞典林业出版社在这几年1990-1991年和2000-2001年出版的林业专业。结果表明，10年期间变化不大。话语继续（重新）生产一个理想的林务员作为一个辛勤工作和自然掌握的人的明显肖像。这种霸权的男性气质在很大程度上是围绕着一个农村男性身份形成的，对狩猎和野生动物有着浓厚的兴趣。与此同时，一些文本显示，女性林务员似乎需要男性指导才能进入该领域，特别是在1990年代初。正是通过这样一个“帮手”，他们似乎获得了作为专业人士的合法性。此外，林业新闻往往发表性别无关紧要的言论。总之，女林务员人数的增加并没有使所研究的林业职业的主要性别编码发生任何重大变化。
Abstract In this article, discourse analysis is used to examine how gender, i.e. ideas of specific masculine or feminine qualities, is linked to forestry professions. The dynamic genderization concept is introduced to understand better how and why the process of gender coding takes place within the forestry field. Discourse here is understood as a particular way of using language and other symbolic forms such as visual images, which does not simply reflect or represent social entities and relations, but constructs or constitutes them. The empirical material consists of 55 job advertisements for supervisors and rangers and 142 texts and images about the forestry professions published in the Swedish forestry press during this years 1990–1991 and 2000–2001. The results show that little has changed during the 10 year period. The discourse continues to (re)produce a manifest portrait of the ideal forester as a hard-working and nature-mastering man. This hegemonic masculinity is to a large extent formed around a rural masculine identity with a strong interest in hunting and wildlife. At the same time, several texts reveal that female foresters appeared to need a male mentor to enter the field, especially at the beginning of the 1990s. It is through such a “helper” that they seem to receive legitimacy as professionals. Further, the forestry press tends to make statements that gender does not matter. In conclusion, the increased number of female foresters has not brought with it any significant change in the dominant gender coding of the studied forestry professions.