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"This book reimagines what it is to organize or manage in contemporary work environments, though looking at ideas such as culture and objectivity. Emerging at about the same time as Schein's well-known theory of culture, Joanne Martin's multiple perspectives on culture have, until now, been accessed by a privileged few. However, Martin's account of culture is shown to be more nuanced, fluid and multi-levelled. Subsequent chapters reimagine the nature of organizing, rationality and bureaucracy through the works of Judi Marshall, Arlie Hochschild and Kathy Ferguson to provide an equally radical re-reading of what happens in organization and management. These works draw on diverse feminist perspectives to critique traditional accounts and offer new discourses. The same is true of Donna Haraway's work and her refutation of our conventional understanding of objectivity, in favour of a feminist objectivity. From partiality we move to absence, and Marguerite Yourcenar's emphasis on the importance of silences in understanding not only organizations but organization studies more broadly. Smircich and Calás then round off the volume by assessing the contribution of feminism to organization studies, and reflecting on how the field may unfold in the future. This book will be relevant to students and researchers across business and management, organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies and sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series note -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: rethinking culture, organization and management -- Chapter 2 Joanne Martin -- (Meta)theory of culture -- 'Other' writings -- Gender inequality -- On (gendered) aspects of academic careers and research processes -- Conclusion -- the future of Martin and organization studies -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Recommended reading -- References -- Chapter 3 Mary Douglas: the cultural and material manifestations of dirt and dirty work

Brief biography -- Broader perspectives -- Purity and danger -- From purity and danger to dirty work -- Moving on from Purity and Danger -- Conclusion -- Recommended reading -- References -- Chapter 4 1984: women scholars re-visioning organizational life -- Me and the wider context -- Writing women's experiences of management -- Judi Marshall -- Emotions, emotional labour and writing with emotion -- Critiquing bureaucracies and exploring alternatives -- Kathy Ferguson -- Impacts of 1980s women writers -- Recommended reading -- References

Chapter 5 Luce Irigaray's philosophy of the feminine: exploring a culture of sexual difference in the study of organizations -- The question of difference in feminist politics: Cultivating a culture of difference -- Irigaray, psychoanalysis and studies of work and organization -- Strategic essentialism -- Irigaray's style -- Implications for understanding gendered relations in organizations -- Notes -- Recommended reading -- References -- Chapter 6 Situating knowledges through feminist objectivity in organization studies: Donna Haraway and the Partial Perspective

Donna Haraway: a biographical sketch -- Universalism versus relativism -- Feminist objectivity, situated knowledges, and the partial perspective -- The study of the 'other' woman in organization and management studies -- Concluding remarks -- Recommended reading -- References -- Index

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