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With apologies for cross-postings ... Call For Papers<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> "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 September 1st 2002 for consideration in the special issue. For informal discussion please contact us at: Alison Linstead: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] Joanna Brewis: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] Tel: + 44 (0)1206 873766 Tel: + 44 (0)1206 873813 Fax: + 44 (0)1206 873429 Fax: + 44 (0)1206 873429