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My first Little Black Dress: A Muslim immigrant woman academic's reflection on entanglement of esthetic labor and emotional labor at a White dinner

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  • Rafia Faiz

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This article is about personal reflections of an immigrant, Muslim, Pakistani, middle class, minority woman working in a business school in Canada who receives an invitation to a White dinner. She writes of experiencing emotional labor and esthetic labor; tensions based on gender, religion, class, age, and culture; skepticism against belonging and otherness—and the space in between; along with her consciousness of being under the disciplinary gaze of her own community members. She feels suspended between strength and vulnerability, resorting to reflective writing for sense‐making.

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  • Rafia Faiz, 2023. "My first Little Black Dress: A Muslim immigrant woman academic's reflection on entanglement of esthetic labor and emotional labor at a White dinner," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(3), pages 1142-1147, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:30:y:2023:i:3:p:1142-1147
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12982
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