Handbook of gender, work, and organization / edited by Emma L. Jeanes, David Knights, and Patricia Yancey Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jeanes, Emma.

Knights, David.

Martin, Patricia Yancey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in the work environment.

Sex discrimination in employment.

Sexual division of labor.

Physical Description:

xxix, 465 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This work of reference represents a remarkably complete, detailed and extensive review of the field of gender, work and organization in the second decade of the 21 st century. Its authors represent eight countries and many disciplines including management, sociology, political science, and gender studies. The chapters, by top scholars in their areas of expertise, offer both reviews and empirical findings, and insights and challenges for further work. The chapters are organized in five sections: Histories and Philosophies; Organizing Work and the Gendered Organization; Embodiment; Globalization; and Diversity. Theoretical and conceptual developments at the cutting edge of the field are explicated and illustrated by the handbook's authors. Methods for conducting research into gender, work and organization are reviewed and assessed as well as illustrated in the work of several chapters. Efforts to produce greater gender equality in the workplace are covered in nearly every chapter, in terms of past successes and failures. Military organizations are presented as one of the difficult to change in regards to gender (with the result that women are marginalized in practice even when official policies and goals require their full inclusion). The role of the body/embodiment is emphasized in several chapters, with attention both to how organizations discipline bodies and how organizational members use their bodies to gain advantage. Particular attention is paid to sexuality in/and organizations, including sexual harassment, policies to alleviate bias, and the likelihood that future work will pay more attention to the body's presence and role in work and organizations. Many chapters also address "change efforts" that have been employed by individuals, groups, and organizations, including transnational ones such as the European Union, the United Nations, and so on. In addition to its value for teachers and students within this field, it also offers insights that would be of value to policy makers and practitioners who need to reflect on the latest thinking relating to gender at work and in organizations.

Contents:

Postmodern feminism and organization studies : a marriage of inconvenience? / Melissa Tyler

Women's writing / Heather Höpfl

Ways of knowing : gender as a politics of knowledge? / Silvia Gherardi

Gender, work, and organization in popular culture / Alison Pullen, Carl Rhodes

Theorizing gender, race, and class in organizations / Joan Acker

How to study gender inequality in organizations? / Barbara Czarniawska

Leading with body / Amanda Sinclair

The Body : a review and a theoretical perspective / Angela Hope

New intimacy, new motherhood, same old work? / Joanna Brewis

Representing the successful managerial body / Kate Kenny, Emma Bell

The organisational contours of 'body work' / Carol Wolkowitz

Embodying transgender in studies of gender, work, and organization / Torkild Thanem

Does gender inequality ever disappear? / Joanne Martin

Practicing gender neutrality in organizations / Päivi Korvajärvi

Women professionals' gender strategies : negotiating gendered organizational barriers / Sharon R. Bird, Laura A. Rhoton

Gender and work : a technofeminist analysis / Judy Wajcman

Gender change, organizational change, and gender equality strategies / Yvonne Benschop, Mieke Verloo

Sexualities, work, organizations, and managements : empirical, policy, and theoretical challenges / Jeff Hearn

Diversity in organizations : a critical examination of assumptions about diversity and organizations in twenty-first century management literature / Vedran Omanović

Diversity, uniqueness, and images of human resourcefulness / Bogdan Costea

International organizations and the organization of gender / Alison E. Woodward

Toward gender equality in European Union labour markets : achievements and contemporary challenges / Catherine Casey

The military in a globalized environment : perpetuating an 'extremely gendered' organization / Orna Sasson-Levy

In the back and forth of transmigration : rethinking organization studies in a transnational key / Marta B. Calás, Linda Smircich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613621573

9780470979273

0470979275

9781280591747

1280591749

9781119990796

1119990793

OCLC:

787842340