Beyond rationality : feminist imaginings on postmodern management/organisations as praxis / guest editor, Ngaire Bissett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bissett, Ngaire.

Series:

Journal of organizational change management ; v. 17, no. 3, 2004.

Journal of organizational change management ; v. 17, no. 3, 2004

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Businesswomen.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bradford, England] : Emerald Group Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper uses ethnographic data from an Australian university to explore constructs of "otherness" focusing on women in lower-level university work. The work of these women, who hold both academic and non-academic staff positions, takes place in the spatial and symbolic locale we call the "ivory basement". Poststructural feminism provides the basis for an examination of the contradictions and subtleties of their identity work as they respond to the pressures of restructuring and managerialism. Faced with a request from these women for certain aspects of their relational work to remain unseen

Contents:

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Abstracts and keywords; Guest editorial; "Don't write about it"; Entrepreneur-mentality, gender and the study of women entrepreneurs; Powerful discourses for social service; Screwing diversity out of the workers? Reading diversity; Unravelling Woomera: lip sewing, morphology and dystopia; Contested rationalities, contested organizations; Diversity writ large; Book review

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-51525-2

9786610515257

1-84544-383-7

OCLC:

70752165