Gender and the Organization

"This unique volume tackles vital issues often shortchanged in organizational analysis, rendering an especially rich portrait of psychosocial approaches to gender. A bold and useful update to other books on the subject one that pushes thinking and practice in refreshingly radical directions!" Karen Ashcraft, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder, USA "An original, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable read, Gender and the Organization blends feminist theories with examples from literature, the arts, film and studies of work organizations to expose and challenge the gendered power relations at the heart of organizing". Robyn Thomas, Professor of Management, Cardiff Business School, Wales, UK. "This important book does not only talk about gender, feminism and organizations, but also live it through every page. I look forward to create reading sessions where I can discuss it with my master students, doctoral students as well as fellow colleagues." Jenny Helin, Associate professor in organization studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. "Harding and Fotaki brilliantly demonstrate how uncomfortable it is for both men and women to talk about gender inequality, sexism and discrimination, but also how important it is to engage with feminist theory uncomfortable or not! In a personal and provocative writing style, the authors ingeniously debate the future of feminism. While mostly critical of current positions, they also propose a way forward, towards an embodied ethics that provides a powerful new way of talking about ourselves (as women)." Sara Louise Muhr, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organization, Denmark. Gender and the Organization houses a language of women for women. A powerful, interdisciplinary feminist journey through the philosophical and psychoanalytic terrains of the socio-economic inequalities of women, the tensions between feminisms, body-politics, performativity, materiality and discourse, intersectionality and difference this book lingers to enable readers to ask: what kind of political and ethical citizens can we become, especially in our organizational engagements? Alison Pullen, Professor, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University, Australia

Marianna Fotaki is Professor of Business Ethics at University of Warwick Business School, UK, and was Network Fellow (20142015) at EJ Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Nancy Harding is Professor of Human Resource Management at University of Bath School of Management, UK, and director of its Future of Work research centre.

List of Exhibits Foreword Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Speaking as working women and working as speaking women Chapter 3 Arguing with the phallus or the materialization of the psyche Chapter 4 Visualities and materialities: The performativity of the female managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt Chapter 5 Intersectionality, transnational feminism and the politics of othering in organizations, culture and society Chapter 6 Feminist ethics as nomadic minoritarianism and relational embodiment in organizations Chapter 7 Conclusion. Women writing differently/writing ethically/writing within, through and form the body Postscript Feminist theory isnt just for women References Footnotes Annex I Index