ABSTRACT

This article reports results of an ethnographic study of how girls are positioned, and position themselves, in relation to gender regimes in three vocational programmes in Swedish upper secondary education: Restaurant Management & Food, Health & Social Care, and Vehicle & Transport. The comparison shows that there are different possible feminine positions where the girls resist and comply to varying degrees both within and between the programmes, with expectations interrelated with discourses of consumption, caring and production. However, generally the position of emphasised femininity is most prominent and becoming a female worker in the programmes’ settings involves complying with feminine ideals of a caring discourse, regardless of whether the VET is oriented towards education for masculine production work, or feminine consumption work.

摘要

本文报告了一项民族志研究的结果，该研究针对瑞典高中教育的三个职业课程中的女孩如何定位和自我定位，这些课程与性别制度相关：餐厅管理与食品、健康与社会护理以及车辆与运输。比较表明，在项目内部和项目之间，存在不同可能的女性立场，其中女孩们不同程度地抵制和服从，期望与消费、关怀和生产的话语相互关联。然而，一般而言，强调女性气质的地位最为突出，成为项目环境中的女性工作者涉及遵守关爱话语的女性理想，无论职业教育与培训是否面向男性生产工作的教育，