Revealing and concealing gender: issues of visibility in organizations

Issues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not only further develop current theoretical ideas around being seen and unseen within organizations, but will also provide us with the opportunity to problematize the concepts of visibility and invisibility. INDICE: Introduction: Theoretical Insights into the Practices of Revealingand Concealing Gender Within Organizations; P.Lewis& R.Simpson - Living and Working in Grey Areas: Gender (In)Visibility and Organization Space; M.Tyler& L.Cohen - A Question Of Membership; H.Höpfl - Pregnancy Centre Stage, Please: Contesting the Erasure of Pregnant Bodies from Workplace Space; C.Gatrell - 4 'Mothered' and Othered: (In)Visibility of Care Responsibility and Gender in Processes of Excluding Women from Norwegian Law Firms; S.Therese Lyng - Organizing Entrepreneurship? Women's Invisibility in Self-Employment; D.Kerfoot& C.Miller - 'Mumpreneurs': Revealing the Post-Feminist Entrepreneur; P.Lewis - Masculinities in Practice: The Invisible Dynamics in Sports; I.Ryan - Leadership andthe (In)Visibility of Gender; J.Binns - 'Now You See Me, Now You Don't': The Visibility Paradox for Women in a Male Dominated Profession; J.H.Watts - The Critical And (Subversive) Act Of (In)Visibility: A Strategic Reframing Of 'Disappeared and Devalued' Women in a Densely Masculinist Workplace; S.Harwood - A Reversal of the Gaze: Men's Experiences Of Visibility in Non-Traditional Occupations; R.Simpson - Gender, Mask and the Face: Towards a Corporeal Ethics; A.Pullen& C.Rhodes

• ISBN: 978-0-230-21211-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés