Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780415325400 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 238 str.

Robyn Thomas; Dr Albert J. Mills; Jean Helms Mills

Opis

This book represents the coming together of two key debates within organization studies: theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance. These debates have been given renewed vigour with the 'postmodern turn' in organization studies and feminist theory. Fusing these two literatures together offers a far deeper understanding of the issues of power, subjectivity and agency.
Representing a growing interest in the contributions that feminist theorizing can offer to the study of organizations, this book focuses on issues of gender and resistance in organizations and, in particular, presents theorising which attends to the dualistic debate of compliance versus resistance to offer more generative understandings of reistance.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance Robyn Thomas, Albert J. Mills, and Jean Helms Mills  Part 1: Constructing Selves: Autoethnographies  2. Refusing to be 'Me' Joanna Brewis 3. Personal Resistance Through Persistance to Organizational Resistance through Distance Jeff Hearn  Part 2: Resisting Subjects in Context  4. Resistance to Diversity Initiatives Penny Dick  5. Gendering New Managerialism Kirstie S. Ball 6. Gendered Identities and Micro-Political Resistance in Public Service Organizations Annette Davies and Robyn Thomas  7. Reforming Managerialism? Gender and the Navigation of Change in Higher Education in Sweden and England John Chandler, Jim Barry, and Elisabeth Berg  8. When Plausibility Fails: Towards a Critical Sensemaking Approach to Resistance Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills  9. Resistance to Organizational Culture Change: A Gendered Analysis Deborah M. Shepherd and Judith K. Pringle  Part 3: Questioning the Politics in Micro-Political Resistance  10. Webs of Resistance in Transnational Call Centres: Strategic Agents, Service Providers and Customers Kiran Mirchandani  11. The Bearable Lightness of Being: Identity Formation, Resistance and Gender Considerations Among the UK Television Workforce Gillian Ursell

O autorze

Robyn Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK. Professor Albert J.Mills is Director of the PhD Management Programme at Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jean Helms Mills is Associate Professor of Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada.