Transforming managers : gendering change in the public sector / [edited by] Stephen Whitehead, Roy Moodley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitehead, Stephen (Stephen M.)

Moodley, Roy.

Series:

Gender, change & society.

Gender, change and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women government executives--Great Britain.

Women government executives.

Government executives--Great Britain.

Government executives.

Sex role in the work environment--Great Britain.

Sex role in the work environment.

Masculinity.

Women executives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text addresses a wide range of theoretical ideas and methodologies in the examination of gendered organisations. The need to examine men in relation to family, law and society is growing, and this book extends this interrogation to work and

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: locating personal and political transformations; 2 New women, new Labour? Gendered transformations in the House; 3 The under-representation of women managers in higher education; 4 Rhetoric versus reality; 5 Power and resistance in the academy; 6 How does it feel?; 7 In the company of men; 8 Men, managers and management; 9 Intermanagerial rivalries, organizational restructuring and the transformation of management masculinities; 10 A personal encounter; 11 The organization of intimacy

12 Man management13 Masculine/managerial masks and the "other" subject; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-35855-9

1-135-35856-7

1-280-14612-5

0-203-97900-1

9780203979006

OCLC:

475944115