Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations.
Autorentext
ELISABETH KELAN, PhD, is Professor of Leadership at Cranfield School of Management. She has written numerous academic articles and two books. The Times featured her as one of the management thinkers to watch and her research was reported in The Financial Times, ABC News, Die Zeit and El País amongst others. She sits on the advisory boards of the Women's Empowerment Principles, a partnership initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact, and the National Society of High School Scholars Foundation. She is an associate editor of the journal Gender, Work and Organization and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Management. She previously worked at London Business School and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Inhalt
Introduction Changes at Work and in Gender Relations Theorising Performing Gender Ideal Workers, Ideal Gender Performing Gendered Work Biographies Gender as an Ideological Dilemma Conclusions
Titel
Performing Gender at Work
Autor
EAN
9780230244498
ISBN
978-0-230-24449-8
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
16.07.2009
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.58 MB
Anzahl Seiten
253
Jahr
2009
Untertitel
Englisch
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