Given male privilege permeates all aspects of society, do recent accounts of a ‘crisis of masculinity’ really matter?
The assignment tests the following learning outcomes:
1 An understanding and analysis of gender as a conceptual category and its links with the conceptual category of ethnicity.
2 An understanding of how theorising on gender and organizations overlaps with or diverges from mainstream management theory.
3 An understanding and analysis of the approach taken to equality and the implementation of equal opportunities
4 Effective and critical written communication.
Key Readings:
Simpson, R. and Lewis, P. (2008) Voice, Visibility and the Gendering of Organizations, Palgrave, Chapters 1, 5.
Burke, R.J. and Black, S. 1997 “Save the Males: Backlash in Organizations”, Journal of Business Ethics, 16: pp. 933-942.
Robinson, S. 2000 “Introduction: Visibility, Crisis and the Wounded White
Male Body” in Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis”, New York: Columbia University Press
Pierce, J.L. 2003: “Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Corporate Culture and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action”, Qualitative Sociology, 26 (1), pp. 53-70.
Simpson, R. and Lewis, P. 2005: ‘An investigation of silence and a scrutiny of transparency: Re-examining gender in organization literature through the Concepts of Voice and Visibility’, Human Relations, 58(10).
Puwar, N. 2004: ‘Thinking About Making a Difference’, British Journal of Politics an International Relations, 6(1), pp. 65-80
Whitehead, S. 2001: ‘The invisible gendered subject: men in education management’. Journal of Gender Studies, 10(1), 67-82.
Smithson, J. and Stokoe, E.H. 2005: ‘Discourses of work-life balance: Negotiating ‘genderblind’ terms in organizations’, Gender, Work and Organization, 12(2), pp. 147-168
Puwar, N. 2001: ‘The racialised somatic norm: institutional racism in the senior civil service’, Sociology, 35(3), pp. 651-670.