Drawing on the heritage of research that demonstrates the thoroughly gendered nature of work organizations, this book explores a key question that, as yet, remains unanswered: how does gendered organizational life affect individuals' identities as they go about their everyday working lives? This que
Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Place, Space and Time
β Scribed by Susan Halford, Pauline Leonard (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 205
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Situating Identities....Pages 18-34
Researching Identities....Pages 35-47
Placing Identities....Pages 48-75
Spaces of Identity....Pages 76-99
Everyday Times....Pages 100-126
Lifetimes....Pages 127-156
Negotiating Identities in Gendered Organizations....Pages 157-178
Back Matter....Pages 179-193
β¦ Subjects
Sociology of Work; Gender Studies; Science, general; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
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