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This edited book inserts postfeminism (PF) as a critical concept
into understandings of work and organization. While the notion of
PF has been extensively investigated in cultural and media studies,
it has yet to emerge within organization studies - remaining
marginal to understandings of work based experiences and
subjectivities. Understanding PF as a discursive cultural context
not only draws on an established epistemological orientation to
organizations as discursively constructed and reproduced but allows
us to highlight how PF may underpin and be underpinned by other
discursive regimes This book, as the first in the field, draws on
key international authors to explore: the contextual 'backdrop' of
PF and its links with neo-liberalism, transnational feminism and
other hegemonic discourses; the different ways in which this
backdrop has infiltrated organizational values and practice through
the primacy attached to choice, merit and individual agency as well
as through the widespread perception that gender disadvantage has
been 'solved'; and the implications for organizational subjectivity
and for how inequality is experienced and perceived. This book
introduces postfeminism as a critical concept with contemporary
importance for the study of organizations, arguing for its
explanatory potential when: Exploring women's and men's experience
of managing and organizing; Investigating the gendered aspects of
organizational life; Analysing the contemporary validation of the
feminine and the associated feminization of management/leadership
and organizations; Tracing the emergence of new femininities and
masculinities within organizational contexts. The book is ideal
reading for researchers working in the area of Gender and
Organization Studies but is also of interest to researchers in the
areas of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Wom
This edited book inserts postfeminism (PF) as a critical concept
into understandings of work and organization. While the notion of
PF has been extensively investigated in cultural and media studies,
it has yet to emerge within organization studies - remaining
marginal to understandings of work based experiences and
subjectivities. Understanding PF as a discursive cultural context
not only draws on an established epistemological orientation to
organizations as discursively constructed and reproduced but allows
us to highlight how PF may underpin and be underpinned by other
discursive regimes This book, as the first in the field, draws on
key international authors to explore: the contextual 'backdrop' of
PF and its links with neo-liberalism, transnational feminism and
other hegemonic discourses; the different ways in which this
backdrop has infiltrated organizational values and practice through
the primacy attached to choice, merit and individual agency as well
as through the widespread perception that gender disadvantage has
been 'solved'; and the implications for organizational subjectivity
and for how inequality is experienced and perceived. This book
introduces postfeminism as a critical concept with contemporary
importance for the study of organizations, arguing for its
explanatory potential when: Exploring women's and men's experience
of managing and organizing; Investigating the gendered aspects of
organizational life; Analysing the contemporary validation of the
feminine and the associated feminization of management/leadership
and organizations; Tracing the emergence of new femininities and
masculinities within organizational contexts. The book is ideal
reading for researchers working in the area of Gender and
Organization Studies but is also of interest to researchers in the
areas of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Women's Studies and
Sociology.
This insightful new study explores an emerging and growing interest
in Sociology and Organization Studies which concerns the meanings
and experiences of 'dirty' work. Based on a unique study of male
street cleaners, refuse collectors, graffiti removers and butchers,
and drawing on Bourdieu as a theoretical frame, it presents an
'embodied' understanding of 'dirty' work. Gender, Work and
Occupation explores new avenues of workplace studies, highlighting
how material conditions both support and constrain processes of
occupation-based ideological constructions. Using original field
research, the authors put forward a different agenda in terms of
how we think about dirty work, and how we can explore and
understand the 'lived experiences' of dirty workers.
The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention
and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is
inequality of opportunity between the genders and the impact this
has on organizations, individual men and women, and society as a
whole. It is undoubtedly the case that progress has been made with
women participating in organizational life in greater numbers and
at more senior levels than has been historically the case,
challenging notions that senior and/or influential organizational
and political roles remain a masculine domain. The Oxford Handbook
of Gender in Organizations is a comprehensive analysis of thinking
and research on gender in organizations with original contributions
from key international scholars in the field. The Handbook
comprises four sections. The first looks at the theoretical roots
and potential for theoretical development in respect of the topic
of gender in organizations. The second section focuses on
leadership and management and the gender issues arising in this
field; contributors review the extensive literature and reflect on
progress made as well as commenting on hurdles yet to be overcome.
The third section considers the gendered nature of careers. Here
the focus is on querying traditional approaches to career,
surfacing embedded assumptions within traditional approaches, and
assessing potential for alternative patterns to evolve, taking into
account the nature of women's lives and the changing nature of
organizations. In its final section the Handbook examines
masculinity in organizations to assess the diversity of
masculinities evident within organizations and the challenges posed
to those outside the norm. In bringing together a broad range of
research and thinking on gender in organizations across a number of
disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual perspectives, the
Handbook provides a comprehensive view of both contemporary
thinking and future research directions.
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