Performing Gender at Work [electronic resource] /
Kelan, Elisabeth.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-247) and index.
Changes at work and in gender relations -- Theorising performing gender -- Ideal workers, ideal gender -- Performing gendered work biographies -- Gender as an ideological dilemma.
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.
Management.
Sociology.
Economic sociology.
Personnel management.
Organization.
Planning.
Management.
Gender Studies.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Human Resource Management.
Organization.