This volume focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing difference as something to be managed, many organizations institute the problem of difference; and while organizations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged.

This volume focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing difference as something to be managed, many organizations institute the problem of difference; and while organizations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged.

This book examines the organization as embodied experience. An international range of contributors is assembled to deal explicitly with the 'maternal' aspects of organization.
This challenging book will be of essential interest to all critical management theorists. With its innovative approach, it will also appeal to students, teachers, and all those looking for an approach to management that does justice to the complexity, ambivalence and chaos of the world of organizing.

Over the past ten to fifteen years there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality. These concerns, however, have consistently been reduced to issues of management and regulation. There is now a growing need to confront issues related to the dehumanization of organizations. This book brings these issues together, presenting an original construction of the organization via an emphasis on the (m)other. This book is not a feminist tract, nor is it primarily about the experiences of women in organizations. It...