An edition of Understanding gender and organizations
(1997)
Understanding gender and organizations
by Mats Alvesson
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface vii
1 Introduction 1
Organizations and gender - a neglected area 5
The idea of gender studies: sensitizing thinking 9
Gender over-and under-sensitivity 12
On readership and limitations 17
The outline of the book 18
2 Different Perspectives on Gender 21
The 'gender-as-a-variable' perspective 24
The feminist standpoint perspective 29
Poststructuralist feminism 37
A critical-interpretive perspective 44
A research 'agenda' based on all three perspectives? 51
3 Gender and Work 54
A brief history of work 54
Contemporary work, horizontal and vertical division of
labour 60
Different ways of understanding women's and men's positions
in the labour market 65
Macro-level 65
4 Masculinities, Femininities and Work 82
Some views on masculinity and femininity 83
Division of labour, sex typing and gender symbolism 90
Masculinities, femininities and identity 96
Summary 99
5 Gender, Organizational Culture and Sexuality 103
On organizational culture 103
Pressure for homogeneity and culturally competent
behaviour 107
Illustrating culture: rituals, artefacts and metaphors 109
One-gendered workplaces 114
Sexuality in organizations 120
Workplace culture and sexuality at Ludvig's Advertising
Agency 125
Summary 131
6 Women and Management I: A Review of Research Results 134
Changing ideas on leadership 135
Explanations for the limited number of women in managerial
jobs 136
Style of leadership - women compared to men 143
Difficulties of women managers 147
Summary 150
7 Women and Management II: Four Positions 153
The equal opportunities position 153
The meritocratic position 157
The special contribution position 161
The alternative values position 165
Comparing the approaches 170
Poststructuralist and critical-interpretive comments 175
Summary and final comment 176
8 Broadening the Agenda: From Women to Gender Relations 180
On the problems of drawing firm conclusions 181
Integrating gender and organization 185
Gender as the fundamental organizing principle? 191
On interests 192
On alternative agendas 197
Some problems in 'anti-male' and 'anti-masculine' gender and
organization studies 199
Summary 205
9 Reconstructing Gender and Organization Studies 209
Gendering organizational analysis and making gender studies
sensitive for organizational issues 209
On the social construction and deconstruction of gender:
beyond women and men 213
Defamiliarization of 'men' and 'women' 215
Final words 225
References 230
Index 243.
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. [230]-242.
Includes index.
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