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Performing Gender at Work

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Elisabeth Kelan

    1. Department of Management, King’s College London, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Elisabeth Kelan
    Pages 1-10

  3. Changes at Work and in Gender Relations

    • Elisabeth Kelan
    Pages 11-39

  4. Theorising Performing Gender

    • Elisabeth Kelan
    Pages 40-69

  5. Ideal Workers, Ideal Gender

    • Elisabeth Kelan
    Pages 70-106

  6. Performing Gendered Work Biographies

    • Elisabeth Kelan
    Pages 107-144

  7. Gender as an Ideological Dilemma

    • Elisabeth Kelan
    Pages 145-181

  8. Conclusions

    • Elisabeth Kelan
    Pages 182-188

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 189-253
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About this book

Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations.

Reviews

"A strongly motivated, compelling piece of research, Elisabeth Kelan challenges us to think about the ways in which the evolving economy shapes new gender inequities. Her eye popping investigation into how gender progress lags as technology expands is a must read." - Sylvia Ann Hewlett, President, Center for Work Life Policy

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management, King’s College London, UK

    Elisabeth Kelan

About the author

ELISABETH KELAN, PhD, is Professor of Leadership at Cranfield School of Management. She has written numerous academic articles and two books. The Times featured her as one of the management thinkers to watch and her research was reported in The Financial Times, ABC News, Die Zeit and El País amongst others. She sits on the advisory boards of the Women's Empowerment Principles, a partnership initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact, and the National Society of High School Scholars Foundation. She is an associate editor of the journal Gender, Work and Organization and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Management. She previously worked at London Business School and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
 
 

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