Gender and the Organization

Women at Work in the 21st Century

Marianna Fotaki, Nancy Harding

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780415660631
• eBook ISBN: 9781135106065
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Discussions of feminism and gender in organizations and management studies, have, with some notable exceptions, become stuck in something of a time-warp. This lies in stark contrast to the developments in the fields of feminism and gender theory more generally. Management and organization studies needs new applied topical gender theories that challenge the limits on what can be said about working lives in organizations.

Gender and the Organization: Women at Work in the 21st Century looks to update management organizational studies with the recent developments in gender theory, including theories of embodiment, affect, materiality, identity, subjectification, recognition, and the intertwining of political, social and the psyche. As well as looking backwards at existing feminist and gender theory, this exciting book also looks forward, developing an organizational feminist theory for the twenty-first century. Exploring what feminist ethics of an organization would look like, this volume shows what a revivified feminist organization studies could offer to gender theorists more generally.

This book will be of interest not only to management and organization theorists, but also more generally to feminist and gender theorists working across the social sciences, arts and humanities. It will appeal to postgraduate and research students and also to established organization and management scholars working in business schools across the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• List of exhibits
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: why feminism and why it is relevant (again) now?
• 2 Language: speaking as working women and working as speaking women
• 3 Arguing with the phallus – or the materialization of the psyche
• 4 Visualities and materialities: the performativity of the female managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt
• 5 Intersectionality, transnational feminism and the politics of othering in organizations, culture and society
• 6 Feminist ethics as nomadic minoritarianism and relational embodiment in organizations
• 7 Conclusion: women writing differently/writing ethically/writing within, through and from the body
• Postscript: feminist theory is not just for women
• Appendix: methodology of the study reported in Chapter 2
• Bibliography
• Index