Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives

by Patrice M. Buzzanell

• ISBN13: 9780761912781
• ISBN10: 0761912789
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-19
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

This book reconsiders organizational and managerial communication theories, research, and practice from a feminist standpoint. It looks at theoretical analyses that reconceptualize and extend boundaries in our thinking about work and organizing processes; presents women's voices through interview excerpts, poems, diary entries, and stories and explores the ways in which these concrete details of ordinary lives represent missing facets of our organizational and managerial communication work; and contains chapters that rewrite organizational and managerial constructs.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
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Introduction: In Medias Res	xiii
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PART I: CONFRONTING OUR PAST
Communication, Organization, and the Public Sphere: A Feminist Perspective	3	(21)
Dennis K. Mumby
Between the Generalized and the Concrete Other: Approaching Organizational Ethics From Feminist Perspectives	24	(23)
Tanni Haas
Stanley Deetz
Organizational Socialization: A Feminist Standpoint Approach	47	(29)
Connie Bullis
Karen Rohrbauck Stout
Rethinking Negotiation: Feminist Views of Communication and Exchange	76	(31)
Linda L. Putnam
Deborah M. Kolb
PART II: RETHINKING PRESENT PROCESSES
Revisioning Control: A Feminist Critique of Disciplined Bodies	107	(21)
Angela Trethewey
Walking the High Wire: Leadership Theorizing, Daily Acts, and Tensions	128	(29)
Marlene G. Fine
Patrice M. Buzzanell
A Feminist Reframing of Stress: Rose's Story	157	(20)
Marifran Mattson
Robin Patric Clair
Pamela A. Chapman Sanger
Adrianne Dennis Kunkel
PART III: AUTHORING OUR FUTURE
``Learning the Ropes'': A Black Feminist Standpoint Analysis	177	(32)
Brenda J. Allen
The Promise and Practice of the New Career and Social Contract: Illusions Exposed and Suggestions for Reform	209	(27)
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Chaos Theory and the Glass Ceiling	236	(21)
Cindy Reuther
Gail T. Fairhurst
Concluding Chapter
Dialoguing...	257	(8)
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References	265	(40)
Index	305	(18)
About the Contributors	323