Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice
The Gendered Dynamics of Power
- 264 pages
- English
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Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice
The Gendered Dynamics of Power
About this book
Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations.
As the intricate relationship between the symbolic and the everyday remains under-researched, this anthology proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective drawing on the humanities in order to explore the complex nature of the gendered politics of organizations. Indeed, analyzing how images, narratives, symbols and bodies are all part of how power and gender are constructed in organizations through a broad and international range of empirical studies, Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice explores issues at the interstices of the humanities and social sciences, combining theoretical and analytical perspectives from both areas.
Providing a radical analysis of the gendered dynamics of power as well as petitioning for radical intervention into those dynamics, this timely volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as: Organization and Management Studies, Gender studies, Feminist theory and Sociology of Work & Industry.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Transdisciplinary interventions
- 2. Representations of women dressed for power
- 3. Face of finance
- 4. Beautiful soldiers: Depicting a gender-inclusive Army
- 5. Beyond fashion’s alluring surface: Connecting the fashion image and the lived realities of female workers in the fashion industry
- 6. Women at sea: Sexual disorder and discipline
- 7. The Genesis of leaders: Women in the petroleum industry
- 8. Making sense of downsizing: Exploring masculinities in the Norwegian oil industry
- 9. When working life becomes life: A study of investment banking
- 10. Women to the rescue? Gender, power and idealism in the third sector
- 11. A leadership ethics of sexual difference?
- 12. Organizational scenarios for human evolution
- 13. Gender, power and feminist resistance
- Epilogue: Residues from the past and emerging structures of feeling
- Index