Gender and the Organization Women at Work in the 21st Century

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.

List of Exhibits

Foreword

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Speaking as working women and working as speaking women

Chapter 3 Arguing with the phallus – or the materialization of the psyche

Chapter 4 Visualities and materialities: The performativity of the female

managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt

Chapter 5 Intersectionality, transnational feminism and the politics

of othering in organizations, culture and society

Chapter 6 Feminist ethics as nomadic minoritarianism and

relational embodiment in organizations

Chapter 7 Conclusion. Women writing differently/writing ethically/writing

within, through and form the body

Postscript Feminist theory isn’t just for women

References

Footnotes

Annex I

Index

Marianna Fotaki is Professor of Business Ethics at University of Warwick Business School, UK, and was Network Fellow (2014–2015) at EJ Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

Nancy Harding is Professor of Human Resource Management at University of Bath School of Management, UK, and director of its Future of Work research centre.