Racism has always been “more than prejudice,” but mainstream social analysts have mostly framed race matters as organized by the logic of prejudice. In this paper, I do four things. First, I restat...

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More than Prejudice: Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions in Critical Race Theory

Women continue to be under-represented in senior positions in universities and their relative absence from the top jobs in management and business schools remains a cause for concern. The aim of this study is to extend understanding of this situation by drawing on the feminist psychoanalytical post-structuralist theories of Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. The theoretical frame proposed engages with debates over language, discourse and the body and allows development of a theory of the disembodied symbolic order explaining women’s continued marginalization and devaluation in academe. This is achieved through analysis of empirical findings of the experiences of women faculty in nine management and business schools in England. The study demonstrates how male norms and woman’s absence from symbolic representations disables their participation in equivalent terms in the institutions studied, and how women often both collude with and resist their own marginalization in academia.

No Woman is Like a Man (in Academia): The Masculine Symbolic Order and the Unwanted Female Body:

This article joins recent critical diversity studies that point to an urgent need to revitalize the field, but goes further by showing the inherent contextual issues and power relations that frame existing contributions. Based on a theoretical reading inspired by Michel Foucault, diversity is presented as discourse that is not independent of the particular research exercise of which it is part but, rather, remains contingent on the prevailing forms of knowledge and choices made by researchers. By attending to more refined understandings of power and context within diversity discourse, this article makes visible and calls into question the categorization and normalization of diversity and its management. It contributes to existing research by suggesting that the knowledge produced by mainstream and critical diversity scholars alike is biopolitical and governmental. To do diversity research differently or ‘otherwise’ requires finding ways to develop theorizations and practices that turn this modality of power against itself.

Hidden contexts and invisible power relations: A Foucauldian reading of diversity research

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Deepening, broadening and re-asserting a postcolonial interrogative space in organization studies

While gender very much holds a place in organization studies, this is primarily in relation to being an object of study. Still largely silent and inexplicit is the gendered nature of what organization studies researchers themselves do when they research and write. Our overarching project in this essai is to render the gendered character of organization studies writing open for discussion, to disturb the taken-for-granted gender neutrality of the ways that organization studies is written, as well as to outline how it might be otherwise. The specific contribution we are led to is the setting out of the possibilities for, following Helene Cixous, a bisexual writing of organization studies. We suggest that organization studies has been dominated by a participation in what Cixous calls a ‘masculine libidinal economy’. This is a system of exchange where science, mastery and rigour are not so much an effort in inquiry, but more a form of (rough) trade through which to appease the fear of castration; the fear of ...

Writing Organization as Gendered Practice: Interrupting the Libidinal Economy

Editorial Introduction ( Emma L Jeanes, David Knights, Patricia Yancey Martin). Section One: Histories and Philosophies of Gender, Work and Organization. Editorial Introduction. 1 Postmodern Feminism and Organization Studies: A Marriage of Inconvenience? (Melissa Tyler). 2 Women's Writing (Heather Hopfl). 3 Ways of Knowing: Gender as a Politics of Knowledge? (Silvia Gherardi). 4 Gender, Work, and Organization in Popular Culture (Alison Pullen and Carl Rhodes). 5 Theorizing Gender, Race, and Class in Organizations (Joan Acker). 6 How to Study Gender Inequality in Organizations? (Barbara Czarniawska). Section Two: Embodying Organizations, Organizing Bodies and Regulating Identities. Editorial Introduction. 7 Leading with Body (Amanda Sinclair). 8 The Body: A Review and a Theoretical Perspective (Angela Hope). 9 New Intimacy, New Motherhood, Same Old Work? (Joanna Brewis). 10 Representing the Successful Managerial Body (Kate Kenny and Emma Bell). 11 The Organisational Contours of 'Body Work' (Carol Wolkowitz). 12 Embodying Transgender in Studies of Gender, Work, and Organization (Torkild Thanem). Section Three: Organizing Work and the Gendered Organization. Editorial Introduction. 13 Does Gender Inequality Ever Disappear? (Joanne Martin). 14 Practicing Gender Neutrality in Organizations (Paivi Korvajarvi). 15 Women Professionals' Gender Strategies: Negotiating Gendered Organizational Barriers (Sharon R. Bird and Laura A. Rhoton). 16 Gender and Work: A Technofeminist Analysis (Judy Wajcman). 17 Gender Change, Organizational Change, and Gender Equality Strategies (Yvonne Benschop and Mieke Verloo). Section Four: Diversity in/and Management and Organizations. Editorial Introduction. 18 Sexualities, Work, Organizations, and Managements: Empirical, Policy, and Theoretical Challenges (Jeff Hearn). 19 Diversity in Organizations: A Critical Examination of Assumptions about Diversity and Organizations in Twenty-fi rst Century Management Literature (Vedran Omanovic) 20 Diversity, Uniqueness, and Images of Human Resourcefulness (Bogdan Costea). Section Five: Globalization and Gender in/and Management and Organizations. Editorial Introduction. 21 International Organizations and the Organization of Gender (Alison E. Woodward). 22 Toward Gender Equality in European Union Labour Markets: Achievements and Contemporary Challenges (Catherine Casey). 23 The Military in a Globalized Environment: Perpetuating an 'Extremely Gendered' Organization (Orna Sasson-Levy). 24 In the Back and Forth of Transmigration: Rethinking Organization Studies in a Transnational Key (Marta B. Calas and Linda Smircich). Biographies. Index.

Patricia Yancey Martin

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Handbook of gender, work and organization