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 21st 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.
Table of Content
Editorial Introduction (Emma L Jeanes, David Knights, Patricia
Yancey Martin).
Section One: Histories and Philosophies of Gender, Work and
Organization.
Editorial Introduction.
1 Postmodern Feminism and Organization Studies: A Marriage of
Inconvenience? (Melissa Tyler).
2 Women’s Writing (Heather Höpfl).
3 Ways of Knowing: Gender as a Politics of Knowledge? (Silvia
Gherardi).
4 Gender, Work, and Organization in Popular Culture (Alison
Pullen and Carl Rhodes).
5 Theorizing Gender, Race, and Class in Organizations (Joan
Acker).
6 How to Study Gender Inequality in Organizations? (Barbara
Czarniawska).
Section Two: Embodying Organizations, Organizing Bodies and
Regulating Identities.
Editorial Introduction.
7 Leading with Body (Amanda Sinclair).
8 The Body: A Review and a Theoretical Perspective (Angela
Hope).
9 New Intimacy, New Motherhood, Same Old Work? (Joanna
Brewis).
10 Representing the Successful Managerial Body (Kate Kenny
and Emma Bell).
11 The Organisational Contours of ‘Body Work’ (Carol
Wolkowitz).
12 Embodying Transgender in Studies of Gender, Work, and
Organization (Torkild Thanem).
Section Three: Organizing Work and the Gendered
Organization.
Editorial Introduction.
13 Does Gender Inequality Ever Disappear? (Joanne Martin).
14 Practicing Gender Neutrality in Organizations (Päivi
Korvajärvi).
15 Women Professionals’ Gender Strategies: Negotiating Gendered
Organizational Barriers (Sharon R. Bird and Laura A.
Rhoton).
16 Gender and Work: A Technofeminist Analysis (Judy
Wajcman).
17 Gender Change, Organizational Change, and Gender Equality
Strategies (Yvonne Benschop and Mieke Verloo).
Section Four: Diversity in/and Management and
Organizations.
Editorial Introduction.
18 Sexualities, Work, Organizations, and Managements: Empirical,
Policy, and Theoretical Challenges (Jeff Hearn).
19 Diversity in Organizations: A Critical Examination of
Assumptions about Diversity and Organizations in Twenty-fi rst
Century Management Literature (Vedran Omanovic)
20 Diversity, Uniqueness, and Images of Human Resourcefulness
(Bogdan Costea).
Section Five: Globalization and Gender in/and Management and
Organizations.
Editorial Introduction.
21 International Organizations and the Organization of Gender
(Alison E. Woodward).
22 Toward Gender Equality in European Union Labour Markets:
Achievements and Contemporary Challenges (Catherine
Casey).
23 The Military in a Globalized Environment: Perpetuating an
‘Extremely Gendered’ Organization (Orna Sasson-Levy).
24 In the Back and Forth of Transmigration: Rethinking
Organization Studies in a Transnational Key (Marta B. Calás
and Linda Smircich).
Biographies.
Index.
About the author
Emma L. Jeanes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of
Exeter, UK, and holds visiting positions at Lund University,
Sweden; and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
Australia.
David Knights is a Research Professor at the University
of West of England, UK, and a Guest Professor at the University of
Gothenburg, Sweden. He also holds Visiting Professorships in
Management at the Universities of Stockholm, Sweden, and Lancaster,
UK.
Patricia Yancey Martin is Professor of Sociology Emerita
at Florida State University, USA, and she has held visiting
positions at Ohio State University, the University of Delaware, the
University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Tennessee,
USA; Trento University, Italy; Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany;
and Gothenburg University, Sweden.
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