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A critical and provocative text revealing how women writers encourage us to look again at gender, embodiment and fluidity in respect of individuals, groups, organisations and societies.
Sommario
1 Introduction: Gender, embodiment and fluidity in organization and management
Robert McMurray & Alison Pullen
2 Joan Acker: Champion of feminist organization theory
Yvonne Benschop
3 When the shoe is on the Other foot: Simone de Beauvoir and organization theory
Philip Hancock & Melissa Tyler
4 Julia Kristeva: Speaking of the body to understand the language of organizations
Marianna Fotaki
5 Marguerite Yourcenar: Anticipating the (queer) body (in organization studies)
Chris Steyaert
6 Witnessing Eve: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Saara L. Taalas
7 J. Jack Halberstam
Nick Rumens
Info autore
Robert McMurray is Professor of Work and Organization at The York Management School, UK. Research interests include the organization of health care, professions, emotion labour, dirty work and visual methods. Other collaborative book projects include The Dark Side of Emotional Labour (2015), The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care (2018) and Urban Portraits (2017).
Alison Pullen is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Macquarie University, Australia, and Editor-in-Chief of Gender, Work and Organization. Alison’s research has been concerned with analyzing and intervening in the politics of work as it concerns gender discrimination, identity politics and organizational injustice.
Riassunto
A critical and provocative text revealing how women writers encourage us to look again at gender, embodiment and fluidity in respect of individuals, groups, organisations and societies.
