Hi folks,
This may be of interest to those researching gender and virtual
organization and gender and technology.
Best wishes.
Joanne.
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Call For Papers
“Beyond Boundaries: towards fluidity in theorising and practice”
For a Special Issue of Gender, Work and Organization
Guest Editors: Alison Linstead and Joanna Brewis
University of Essex
Although the study of gender is a relatively new entrant to work and
organisation theory, analyses to date have reflexively addressed whether
such theory has been blind to gender or in fact has suppressed it as a
fundamental issue. Identifying gender as a credible topic in this
discipline, however, has largely involved establishing the idea of
difference in terms of masculinity and femininity, predominantly in a
dichotomous form. It is only more recently that contributions to the
gender, work and organisation debate have recognised degrees of
difference that are usually expressed in terms of multiple forms of
masculinities or femininities. Nonetheless, even this idea of
multiplicity leaves the binary divide in place in that masculinities and
femininities are seen as having multiple forms which still exist in a
binary relation to each other. The hierarchical nature of the gender
binary, as expressed by theorists such as Jacques Derrida and Hélène
Cixous, renders the feminine subordinate, Other, to the masculine centre
or logos. The question therefore remains as to whether it is possible to
achieve greater equity in practice with a binary form of thinking which
inevitably reproduces such a hierarchy. In the broader arena of social
science and philosophy there have been some attempts to dissolve these
gender binaries to further explore the fluidity of gender identity, but
this area of inquiry has scarcely begun to be acknowledged in work and
organisation theory.
In this special edition we wish to explore ways of thinking about gender
beyond binary distinctions, theorising gender multiplicity and
performing and enacting gender fluidity in the context of work and
organizing. More specifically we welcome papers from international
contributors which focus on the following areas:
? Dissolving difference
? Performing gender
? Gender identities, power and desire
? Transsexuality, transgenderism and bisexuality
? Queer theory
? Postmodern epistemologies and methodologies
? Gendering change
? (De)sexed bodies
? Praxis and fluidity
? Virtual organisation and gender fluidity
? Representations of gender in popular culture and cultural anthropology
? Geographies of identities and difference
? Gender technologies and prostheses which disrupt bodily boundaries
? Globalisation, translation, cross-cultural differences and how gender
discourses `travel’
This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather indicative of
areas which might be relevant to debates around gender fluidity in work
and organization theory.
Please send full papers in the Gender, Work and Organization format,
preferably in the form of an e-mail attachment in Word 97, to both
organisers by June 1st 2002 for consideration in the special issue. For
informal discussion please contact us at:
Alison Linstead: [log in to unmask] Joanna Brewis: [log in to unmask]
Tel: + 44 (0)1206 873766 Tel: + 44 (0)1206 873813
Fax: + 44 (0)1206 873429 Fax: + 44 (0)1206 873429
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