Queer Business - Queering Organization Sexualities

This book explores how queer theory has been used in management and organisation studies, with the aim of broadening and deepening queer scholarship in the discipline. Rumens discusses using queer theory concepts to explore how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender sexualities and genders are understood and experienced in the workplace.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Queer Beginnings
Chapter 2: Queer Theory, Sexuality, Management and Organisation Studies
Chapter 3: Queer Theory in Business and Management Schools
Chapter 4: Queer Theory, Research Methodologies and Methods
Chapter 5: Queer Liberalism
Chapter 6: Queering Heterosexuality
Chapter 7: The Future is Queer?
Conclusion

About the author

Nick Rumens is Professor in Human Resource Management at University of Portsmouth, UK.

Summary

This book explores how queer theory has been used in management and organisation studies, with the aim of broadening and deepening queer scholarship in the discipline. Rumens discusses using queer theory concepts to explore how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender sexualities and genders are understood and experienced in the workplace.

Additional text

A first of its kind, this vital volume offers a comprehensive and insightful tour of timely concerns provoked by the uneasy meeting of queer theory and management studies. It powerfully demonstrates how queering can unsettle the constitutive gender and sexuality of organizing to promising effect. This is a must-read companion for any treatment of power in contemporary organizational life, and especially for courses addressed to critical management studies or other radical theories of work and organization.
Karen Lee Ashcraft, Professor, Department of Communicationm, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Product details

• Authors: Nick Rumens, Nick (Middlesex University Rumens, Rumens Nick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138814011
• ISBN: 978-1-138-81401-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities; Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities; Routledge Advances in Critical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory & behaviour, Gay & Lesbian studies, Sociology: work & labour, Organizational theory and behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics