Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of OrganizationSAGE Publications, 2003 M09 24 - 280 pages "Reworking Gender is a remarkable analysis of the intersections of discourse, gender, and organizing that not only addresses contemporary metatheoretical concerns but also illuminates these issues with archival and interview data. . . . Reworking Gender systematically lays out arguments for the importance of work in our field, for communication′s connections with and potential contributions to related disciplines, and for possible ways in which researchers can continue to challenge boundaries between presumably incommensurable discourses. Without a doubt, Reworking Gender will prove to be a landmark book in feminist, critical-cultural, organization studies, and organizational communication theorizing." --Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University
In a compelling and timely fashion, this important volume explores
With its interdisciplinary approach, Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization will be of significant interest to scholars and graduate students in such fields as organizational communication, management and organization studies, sociology, and gender studies. |
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... examined gender as a key aspect of work and family matters; predictably, much of this scholarship is addressed to the concerns or consequences of working mothers (Belsky & Eggebeen, 1991; Greenhaus & Parasuraman, 1999; Milkie & Pelotal ...
... examined the intersection of gender, organizing, identity, and power. In our own field of organizational communication, for example, a “critical mass” of feminist scholarship has emerged (e.g., B. J. Allen, 1996; Ashcraft, 2000 ...
... examine the social construction of “airline pilot” as an elite, romanticized professional identity. Potentially, our focus could be read as reinscribing this figure in the popular imagination. To minimize this risk and to develop the ...
... examining the implications of specific feminist perspectives for enhancing understanding. For us, the central question then becomes, “Out of the many possibilities that feminism offers, which approaches best enable us to map the ...
... examine the communicative processes through which identities and organizations are (re)produced. In sum, centering communication means that reason and rationality, community and identity, must be placed within an intersubjective context ...
Contents
2 Feminism and the Discourse of Modernism | |
3 Postmodernism and Organization Studies | |
4 Organizing at the Intersection of Feminism and Postmodernism
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5 A Feminist Communicology of Organization
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6 A Feminist Communicology of the Airline Pilot
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7 Conclusion
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Notes | |
References | |
Author Index
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Subject Index
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About the Authors | |
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Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization Karen Ashcraft,Dennis K Mumby Limited preview - 2004 |
Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization Karen Ashcraft,Dennis K Mumby No preview available - 2004 |