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Book SynopsisThis third volume in the Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies series challenges us to think again about the implications of gender, embodiment and fluidity for organizing and managing. The themes of this book disrupt our understanding of dualisms between sex (men and women), gender (masculinity and femininity) and mind / body, and in so doing analyze the ways in which dominant power relations constitute heteronormativity throughout organizational history, thereby reinforcing mainstream management research and teaching. By centring the work of women writers, this book gives recognition to their thinking and praxis; each writer making political inroads into changing the lived experiences of those who have suffered discrimination, exclusion and marginalization as they consider the ways in which organizational knowledge has tended to privilege rather than problematize masculinity, fixity, control, normativity, violence and discrimination.
Table of Contents1 Introduction: Gender, embodiment and fluidity in organization and management
Robert McMurray & Alison Pullen
2 Joan Acker: Champion of feminist organization theory
Yvonne Benschop
3 When the shoe is on the Other foot: Simone de Beauvoir and organization theory
Philip Hancock & Melissa Tyler
4 Julia Kristeva: Speaking of the body to understand the language of organizations
Marianna Fotaki
5 Marguerite Yourcenar: Anticipating the (queer) body (in organization studies)
Chris Steyaert
6 Witnessing Eve: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Saara L. Taalas
7 J. Jack Halberstam
Nick Rumens
