Doctor Kate Huppatz

LECTURER,
Sociology and Criminology (SoSSP)

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PhD University of Sydney

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Sociology and Criminology (SoSSP)

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Email:	K.Huppatz@uws.edu.au
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Biography

Kate Huppatz is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. Prior to joining UWS Kate completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Sydney (2007-2010) where she also studied for her honours degree and PhD in sociology (2003-2007). Kate is interested in exploring the role of culture in the production and reproduction of inequality. Her work has examined contemporary gendered and classed identities and practices, and the intersectionality of gender and class, including the relationship between motherhood and class and the relationship between masculinity, femininity, class and work. Most recently she has completed a monograph titled Gender Capital at Work: intersections of femininity, masculinity, class and occupation (Palgrave Macmillan UK, forthcoming, 2012).

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

101886 Brave New World: Negotiating Social Change in the 21st Century, 2012
101608 Inequalities and Difference, 2012
101609 Comparative Studies of Families and Kinship, 2012
101612 Identity and Belonging, 2012

Publications

Books

Huppatz, K. (2012), 'Gender Capital at Work : Intersections of Femininity, Masculinity, Class and Occupation', : Palgrave Macmillan 9780230251991.
Goodwin, S. and Huppatz, K. (2010), 'The good mother : contemporary motherhoods in Australia', : Sydney University Press 9781920899530.

Journal Articles

Huppatz, K. (2010), 'Respectability and the paid caring occupations: An empirical investigation of normality, morality, impression management and esteem in nursing and social work', Health Sociology Review, 13.
Huppatz, K. (2010), 'Class and Career Choice: motivations, aspirations, identity and mobility for women in paid caring work', Journal of Sociology, 18.
Ross-Smith, A. and Huppatz, K. (2010), 'Management, women and gender capital', Gender, Work and Organization, 20.
Huppatz, K. (2009), 'Reworking Bourdieu's 'Capital': feminine and female capitals in the field of paid caring work', Sociology, 22.
Huppatz, K. (2008), 'Feminism as Capital: gender, class and mobility for women in paid care work', International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 6.
Huppatz, K. (2006), 'The Interaction of Gender and Class in Nursing: Appropriating Bourdieu and Adding Butler', Health Sociology Review, 8.

Conference Papers

Huppatz, K. (2004), 'Embodied Classed/Gendered Practice and Women's Occupational Pathways to Paid Caring Work', The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference Proceedings, .

Research

Kate Huppatz's research examines contemporary gendered and classed identities and practices, and the intersectionality of gender and class, including the relationship between motherhood and class and the relationship between masculinity, femininity, class and work. Within her research Kate draws on and reworks Bourdieu's approach to gender and class.

She is currently working on a project titled Regulating Motherhood: understanding the relationship between mothering and class which has been awarded a UWS Seed Grant.

Kate has co-edited a collection (with Associate Professor Susan Goodwin, 2010) titled The Good Mother: contemporary motherhoods in Australia which explores the different ways in which mothers are regulated in contemporary Australia. She has also authored a monograph titled Gender Capital at Work: intersections of femininity, masculinity, class and occupation (Palgrave Macmillan UK, forthcoming, 2012) for which she researched how gender operates as 'capital' in several feminised occupations including nursing, social work, exotic dancing and hairdressing.