摘要:

This paper examines an important recent development in thinking on the role of sexuality and eroticism within organizations, namely Re‐eroticization theory. The paper contextualizes this development by contrasting it with modemist‐masculinist and modernist‐feminist discourses on eroticism and organizations prior to synthesizing the many disparate strands of Re‐eroticization theory. Re‐eroticization is then examined critically in terms of its theoretical assumptions and the nature of its emancipatory promise. In particular, it is argued that Re‐eroticization theory retains an unacknowledged essentialism which renders its emancipatory claims problematic, and is overly sanguine with respect to violent forms o

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1994.tb00007.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper, based on research in the North of England, seeks to examine the interconnections between equal opportunities policies, women's employment and patriarchy in a local labour market. It is argued that organizations develop a selection of public patriarchal strategies, most notable of which are the denial of inequality and the use of ‘time’ to segregate and disadvantage women within the labour market and labour process. It is masculine culture which has determined the shape and operation of equal opportunities policies where time commitment, individualism and priority to employment are necessary in order to achieve. Equal opportunities policies fail to address not only structural inequalities but also the role that organizations themselves play in maintaining gender segregation. By individualizing women the policies may also undermine women's own employment coping strategies which depend on assistance from other women both inside and outside the employment sett

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1994.tb00008.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Recently, Hakim (1991) has argued that women's choices and decisions are a key determinant of labour market behaviour and patterns of gender segregation. Drawing on a case study of women scientists and engineers, this paper examines the extent to which horizontal segregation is the product of preference and planning. The evidence suggests that the women's choices were a significant factor in entering the technical professions. However, from predominantly middle‐class families, coming from single‐sex schools, the women were able to specialize in technical subjects and to withstand pressure to change their decisions. Their subsequent occupational positions were the product of these educational choices rather than well‐formulated career plans. Their involvement in their employers' schools/industry liaison policies highlighted that the majority of young women do not consider professional science and engineering as an appropriate job for them. The findings of the study illustrate that preferences and plans are made in ‘gendered’ social contexts in which women face different opportunities and constraints in exercising their decisions. While the study of women's attitudes and behaviour should not be neglected, sociologists should be wary of voluntaristic accounts of gender segregation which rely on rationalistic notions of labour market

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1994.tb00009.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1994.tb00010.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Book reviewed in this article:Women and Japanese Managementby Alice Lam.Women and the Labour Marketby Teresa Rees.Women's Career Development: A Study of High Flyersby Barbara White, Charles Cox and Cary Cooper.Gender Divisions and Social Changeby Nickie Charles.

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1994.tb00011.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY