Revealing and Concealing Gender Issues of Visibility in Organizations

by Simpson, Ruth; Lewis, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780230212114
• ISBN10: 0230212115
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Issues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not only further develop current theoretical ideas around being seen and unseen within organizations, but will also provide us with the opportunity to problematize the concepts of visibility and invisibility.

Author Biography

Patricia Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Management at Kent Business School, UK. Her work on gender and emotion, gender and enterprise, the development of enterprise culture and entrepreneurial identity has been published in Gender, Work and Organization, British Journal of Management, Work, Employment and Society, Human Relations, and Journal of Business Ethics. Ruth Simpson is Professor of Management at Brunel Business School, UK. Her research interests include gender and management education, gender and emotions and the careers of men in non-traditional occupations. She has published in Human Relations, Academy of Management (Learning and Education). Gender, Work and Organization and Work, Employment and Society.

Table of Contents

Biographies of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Theoretical Insights into the Practices of Revealing and Concealing Gender within Organizations	p. 1
Living and Working in Grey Areas: Gender (In)visibility and Organizational Space	p. 23
A Question of Membership	p. 39
Pregnancy Centre Stage, Please: Contesting the Erasure of Pregnant Bodies from Workplace Space	p. 54
'Mothered' and Othered: (In)visibility of Care Responsibility and Gender in Processes of Excluding Women from Norwegian Law Firms	p. 76
Organizing Entrepreneurship? Women's Invisibility in Self-employment	p. 100
'Mumpreneurs': Revealing the Post-feminist Entrepreneur	p. 124
Masculinities in Practice: The Invisible Dynamics in Sports Leadership	p. 139
Leadership and the (In)visibility of Gender	p. 158
'Now you see me, now you don't': The Visibility Paradox for Women in a Male-Dominated Profession	p. 175
The Critical (and Subversive) Act of (In)visibility: A Strategic Reframing of 'Disappeared and Devalued' Women in a Densely Masculinist Workplace	p. 194
A Reversal of the Gaze: Men's Experiences of Visibility in Non-traditional Occupations	p. 219
Gender, Mask and the Face: Towards a Corporeal Ethics	p. 233
Index	p. 249
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