Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization

by Jeanes, Emma; Knights, David; Yancey Martin, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9781444394726
• ISBN10: 144439472X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This work of reference represents a remarkably complete, detailed and extensive review of the field of gender, work and organization in the second decade of the 21st century. Its authors represent eight countries and many disciplines including management, sociology, political science, and gender studies. The chapters, by top scholars in their areas of expertise, offer both reviews and empirical findings, and insights and challenges for further work. The chapters are organized in five sections: Histories and Philosophies; Organizing Work and the Gendered Organization; Embodiment; Globalization; and Diversity. Theoretical and conceptual developments at the cutting edge of the field are explicated and illustrated by the handbook's authors. Methods for conducting research into gender, work and organization are reviewed and assessed as well as illustrated in the work of several chapters. Efforts to produce greater gender equality in the workplace are covered in nearly every chapter, in terms of past successes and failures. Military organizations are presented as one of the difficult to change in regards to gender (with the result that women are marginalized in practice even when official policies and goals require their full inclusion). The role of the body/embodiment is emphasized in several chapters, with attention both to how organizations discipline bodies and how organizational members use their bodies to gain advantage. Particular attention is paid to sexuality in/and organizations, including sexual harassment, policies to alleviate bias, and the likelihood that future work will pay more attention to the body's presence and role in work and organizations. Many chapters also address "change efforts" that have been employed by individuals, groups, and organizations, including transnational ones such as the European Union, the United Nations, and so on. In addition to its value for teachers and students within this field, it also offers insights that would be of value to policy makers and practitioners who need to reflect on the latest thinking relating to gender at work and in organizations.

Author Biography

Emma L. Jeanes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK, and holds visiting positions at Lund University, Sweden; and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

David Knights is a Research Professor at the University of West of England, UK, and a Guest Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He also holds Visiting Professorships in Management at the Universities of Stockholm, Sweden, and Lancaster, UK.

Patricia Yancey Martin is Professor of Sociology Emerita at Florida State University, USA, and she has held visiting positions at Ohio State University, the University of Delaware, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Tennessee, USA; Trento University, Italy; Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany; and Gothenburg University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Editorial Introduction	p. ix
Histories and Philosophies of Gender, Work and Organization	p. 1
Editorial Introduction
Postmodern Feminism and Organization Studies: A Marriage of Inconvenience?	p. 9
Women's Writing	p. 25
Ways of Knowing: Gender as a Politics of Knowledge?	p. 37
Gender, Work, and Organization in Popular Culture	p. 51
Theorizing Gender, Race, and Class in Organizations	p. 65
How to Study Gender Inequality in Organizations?	p. 81
Embodying Organizations, Organizing Bodies and Regulating Identities	p. 109
Editorial Introduction	p. 109
Leading with Body	p. 117
The Body: A Review and a Theoretical Perspective	p. 131
New Intimacy, New Motherhood, Same Old Work?	p. 147
Representing the Successful Managerial Body	p. 163
The Organisational Contours of 'Body Work'	p. 177
Embodying Transgender in Studies of Gender, Work, and Organization	p. 191
Organizing Work and the Gendered Organization	p. 205
Editorial Introduction	p. 205
Does Gender Inequality Ever Disappear?	p. 213
Practicing Gender Neutrality in Organizations	p. 231
Women Professionals' Gender Strategies: Negotiating Gendered Organizational Barriers	p. 245
Gender and Work: A Technofeminist Analysis	p. 263
Gender Change, Organizational Change, and Gender Equality Strategies	p. 277
Diversity in/and Management and Organizations	p. 291
Editorial Introduction	p. 291
Sexualities, Work, Organizations, and Managements: Empirical, Policy, and Theoretical Challenges	p. 299
Diversity in Organizations: A Critical Examination of Assumptions about Diversity and Organizations in Twenty-first Century Management Literature	p. 315
Diversity, Uniqueness, and Images of Human Resourcefulness	p. 333
Globalization and Gender in/and Management and Organizations	p. 347
Editorial Introduction	p. 347
International Organizations and the Organization of Gender	p. 355
Toward Gender Equality in European Union Labour Markets: Achievements and Contemporary Challenges	p. 375
The Military in a Globalized Environment: Perpetuating an 'Extremely Gendered' Organization	p. 391
In the Back and Forth of Transmigration: Rethinking Organization Studies in a Transnational Key	p. 411
Biographies	p. 429
Index	p. 439
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