Revealing and Concealing Gender [electronic resource] : Issues of Visibility in Organizations /
Lewis, P.editor.
Simpson, R.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Biographies of Contributors; Introduction: Theoretical Insights into the Practices of Revealing and Concealing Gender within Organizations; 1 Living and Working in Grey Areas: Gender (In)visibility and Organizational Space; 2 A Question of Membership; 3 Pregnancy Centre Stage, Please: Contesting the Erasure of Pregnant Bodies from Workplace Space; 4 'Mothered' and Othered: (In)visibility of Care Responsibility and Gender in Processes of Excluding Women from Norwegian Law Firms; 5 Organizing Entrepreneurship? Women's Invisibility in Self-employment
6 'Mumpreneurs': Revealing the Post-feminist Entrepreneur7 Masculinities in Practice: The Invisible Dynamics in Sports Leadership; 8 Leadership and the (In)visibility of Gender; 9 'Now you see me, now you don't': The Visibility Paradox for Women in a Male-Dominated Profession; 10 The Critical (and Subversive) Act of (In)visibility: A Strategic Reframing of 'Disappeared and Devalued' Women in a Densely Masculinist Workplace; 11 A Reversal of the Gaze: Men's Experiences of Visibility in Non-traditional Occupations; 12 Gender, Mask and the Face: Towards a Corporeal Ethics; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Personnel management.
Sociology.
Behavioral economics.
Management.
Human Resource Management.
Gender Studies.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
Management.