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Handbook of Gender, Work, and Organization

Name: Handbook of Gender, Work, and Organization
ISBN: 9781444394726

by Emma L Jeanes, David Knights, Patricia Yancey Martin

May 2011

Intermediate to advanced

496 pages

19h 6m

English

Wiley-Blackwell

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Contents
Title
Copyright
Editorial Introduction
Section One : Histories and Philosophies of Gender, Work and Organization
Chapter 1 : Postmodern Feminism and Organization Studies: A Marriage of Inconvenience?
Opening ThoughtsPostmodernism: A Word of WarningPostmodernism and Gendered Subjectivity at WorkPerformativity and Feminist (Organizational) PoliticsFeminist and Postmodernist Conceptions of Truth and KnowledgePostmodern Feminism and Organization Studies: Critical Reflections and Anticipations
Chapter 2 : Women’s Writing
IntroductionKey Writings and Writings in White InkKristeva’s ContributionDisruptive AlterityHegemony and ReproductionA Personal ExampleWomen, Writing, and the OrganizationSummary and Conclusions
Chapter 3 : Ways of Knowing: Gender as a Politics of Knowledge?
IntroductionMy StoryPlato’s StoryThe Thracian Servant Girl as a Figure of DiscourseThe Symbolic Matricide in Organization StudiesThe Above and the BelowTheory and Practice; Truth and AppearanceMind of a Man and Body of a WomanA Politics of KnowledgeConclusion
Chapter 4 : Gender, Work, and Organization in Popular Culture
Work and Gender on Film and TelevisionGender and Popular Culture in Management and Organization StudiesSummary and Conclusion

Chapter 5 : Theorizing Gender, Race, and Class in Organizations
A Brief History of Gender in OrganizationsA Brief History of Intersectionality: Race, Class, and Gender in OrganizationsGender, Race, and Class Inequalities in Work and OrganizationsInequality RegimesConclusion
Chapter 6 : How to Study Gender Inequality in Organizations?
1. . . . experimentally2. . . . retrospectively3. . . . prospectively (Field Studies)4. . . . via fiction:
Section Two : Embodying Organizations, Organizing Bodies and Regulating Identities
Chapter 7 : Leading with Body
Research on Bodies in Organisations and SocietyThe Apparent Absence of Bodies in LeadershipEmbodying Leadership
Chapter 8 : The Body: A Review and a Theoretical Perspective
IntroductionThe Body in Social TheoryThe Body in Feminist TheoryThe Body in Organization StudiesCorporeal Management at Work and in SocietyCorporeal Management and Future Research
Chapter 9 : New Intimacy, New Motherhood, Same Old Work?
IntroductionConsidering the ‘New Intimacy’ ThesisConsidering the ‘New Motherhood’ ThesisConsidering Work–Life ‘Balance’ConclusionAppendix: Respondent Biographies
Chapter 10 : Representing the Successful Managerial Body
IntroductionManaging the Female BodyThe Masculine Norm and its Feminine OtherBody ManagementDoing Bodies Differently
Chapter 11 : The Organisational Contours of ‘Body Work’
The Relation Between the Body and WorkWork on One’s Own Body‘Body Work’ on Others’ BodiesConclusions
Chapter 12 : Embodying Transgender in Studies of Gender, Work, and Organization
IntroductionTransgender, Work, and OrganizationTransgender in Social Science and Humanities ResearchTransgender in Studies of Gender, Work, and OrganizationTowards an Embodied Approach to Transgender in Studies of Gender, Work, and OrganizationConclusionAcknowledgements
Section Three : Organizing Work and the Gendered Organization
Chapter 13 : Does Gender Inequality Ever Disappear?
Overview of a Four-part ChapterBody Counts versus a Process of GenderingGender Inequality at the National Level of AnalysisGender Inequality at the Organizational Level of AnalysisSummary: Gender Inequality EverywhereWhat Would a Gender Equal Work Environment Look Like?DeGendering Organizations: Androgyny at WorkInstrumental Use of Conventional Sexual StereotypesBreaking Traditional Sexual StereotypesStudying a More Equal Future
Chapter 14 : Practicing Gender Neutrality in Organizations
IntroductionGender Views on the New Economy: Mapping the FieldNeutralizing Femininity in Organizations?Reflections, and Implications for Future ResearchAcknowledgements
Chapter 15 : Women Professionals’ Gender Strategies: Negotiating Gendered Organizational Barriers
Gendered Barriers and Professional Work OrganizationsWomen Professionals’ Gender StrategiesFuture Outlook
Chapter 16 : Gender and Work: A Technofeminist Analysis
The Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, and TechnologyMachinery of MasculinityCyberfeminismTechnofeminism: Combining Feminist and Technology StudiesConclusion
Chapter 17 : Gender Change, Organizational Change, and Gender Equality Strategies
IntroductionAn Overview of the Quest for Organizational Change Toward Gender EqualityA Two-dimensional ComparisonGender Change and Organization Change?A Forward Looking Strategy: genderXchange
Section Four : Diversity in/and Management and Organizations
Chapter 18 : Sexualities, Work, Organizations, and Managements: Empirical, Policy, and Theoretical Challenges
IntroductionOverviewEmpirical StudiesPolicy DevelopmentTheoretical and Conceptual ReviewsThe Case of Information and Communication TechnologiesConclusions and Future ResearchAcknowledgements
Chapter 19 : Diversity in Organizations: A Critical Examination of Assumptions about Diversity and Organizations in Twenty-first Century Management Literature
BackgroundChapter PurposeSearch MethodsSummaryAcknowledgements
Chapter 20 : Diversity, Uniqueness, and Images of Human Resourcefulness
IntroductionApproachDiversity versus Equality: Usurpation or Reoccupation?Uniqueness and the Limits of Human ResourcefulnessConcluding Remarks
Section Five : Globalization and Gender in/and Management and Organizations
Chapter 21 : International Organizations and the Organization of Gender
International Organizations – Definitions and PerspectivesIGOs and GenderInternational Organizations Organizing GenderGendering Intergovernmental OrganizationsFurther ResearchConclusions
Chapter 22 : Toward Gender Equality in European Union Labour Markets
IntroductionGender Equality Policy in European Union Labour Markets: Key DevelopmentsCurrent Concerns: Outcomes and ProblemsConclusion
Chapter 23 : The Military in a Globalized Environment: Perpetuating an ‘Extremely Gendered’ Organization
The Military as a Gendered OrganizationGlobalizing Gendered DynamicsThe Military as an Extremely-gendered InstitutionConclusion: The Military as an Extremely Gendered Organization
Chapter 24 : In the Back and Forth of Transmigration: Rethinking Organization Studies in a Transnational Key
Transmigration and the Creation of Transnational Social FieldsWhere are the Transmigrants? Examining Three Organization Literatures
Biographies
Index

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Index

the ‘abject’ body

Aboriginals

abortion

the above and the below, politics of knowledge

academic writing, women’s writing

accounting profession, retrospective research methods into gender inequality in organizations

accounting statements

Acker, Joan

Adams, M.

Adkins, L.

The Adventures of Priscilla. Queen of the Desert (film)

advertising, popular culture

‘aesthetic labour’

affirmative action programs

Afghanistan

Africa

age factors

‘body work’

diversity

inequality regimes

older parents

sexualities

agenderists

Agnes study, transgender

AIDS/HIV

air pollution

airhostesses

Algeria

‘aligning with conventional practices of femininity’ strategy, barrier-negotiation strategies amongst professional women

‘aligning with white, hegemonic practices of masculinity’ strategy, barrier-negotiation strategies amongst professional women

Ally McBeal (TV series)

alternative narratives, politics of knowledge

American Idol (TV series)

American Psychological Association (APA)

Amsterdam Treaty 1997

androgyny at work

angry outbursts, crying in public

‘another form of knowing’, politics of knowledge

anthropology

anti-discrimination laws

archival research, diversity

Argentina

Ariel

‘artifacts’, narratives

Assumption

attorneys

Augustine

Australia

Austria

autobiographies, retrospective research methods into gender inequality in organizations

Avon

‘back and forth’ of transmigration

Bakhtin, Mikhail

balancing acts, successful managerial body

Bangladesh

banks, critique

Barley, S.

barrier-negotiation strategies ...

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