Accounting for Feminism
Exploring Emancipation for Profession and Practice
- 254 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Although gender challenges in accounting are widely acknowledged, research often addresses the position of men and women in relation to various issues, without necessarily challenging the underlying structures and social constructions of gender. In contrast, this book takes a much more overtly feminist position, informed by feminist theory, feminist methodology and feminist activism, to challenge these constructs and resulting inequalities. The book addresses contemporary global feminisms and their potential emancipatory implications for accounting, as a profession and as a tool or technology.
It explores feminist theorisations of accounting, offering new insights into their relevance, and provides a rich theoretical and practical resource to advance knowledge in the discipline and stimulate further interdisciplinary research. Rather than being issue driven with chapters organised to address particular concerns that relate to gender and accounting, such as parenthood, career progression, accountability, etc., the structure of this book is such that the feminist theoretical position is the starting point for each chapter. The book highlights the range of ways that feminism, in its various forms and from numerous theoretical perspectives, can contribute to an understanding of the challenges relating to gender, race and class occurring within accounting, and the ways of overcoming them.
In this way, the book provides an integrated discussion of feminist theories and the emancipatory potential of applying them to accounting that will appeal to readers whatever their orientation to feminism.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Endorsements
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The case for feminisms and accounting: Scoping the emancipatory potential of accounting
- 2 Early feminisms, accounting technologies and the professionalisation of accounting
- 3 Liberal feminism and equal opportunities within the accounting profession
- 4 Feminist difference and resistance: Class, race, and intersectionality within accounting
- 5 Postcolonial, decolonial, transnational, Islamic and Muslim feminisms in accounting
- 6 Influences of poststructuralist feminisms on identities, sexualities and embodiment in accounting
- 7 Ecofeminisms, ethics of care and accounting as care
- 8 Integrating feminist theories, methodologies and activism: The emancipatory potential of feminist accounting
- Appendix 1
- Index