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Feminism: A Key Idea for Business and Society [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 160 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 453 g, 3 Tables, black and white
  • Serija: Key Ideas in Business and Management
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-Jun-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138315095
  • ISBN-13: 9781138315099
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 160 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 453 g, 3 Tables, black and white
  • Serija: Key Ideas in Business and Management
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-Jun-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138315095
  • ISBN-13: 9781138315099
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
In this concise book, feminist thought is made accessible and relevant to both students and management practitioners. An empowering introduction to an often-overlooked key idea, this book illuminates how feminist thinking can liberate our understanding of work and management.Feminism: A Key Idea for Business and Society boldly challenges assumptions about both feminism and business. It offers a primer on feminism for business and explains feminist interventions including adding women’s voices, pushing for equality, and practicing feminist values to make businesses more successful and more just. It analyzes the obstacles organizations and individuals face in their efforts to address gender inequality, and demonstrates how feminist interventions have changed the terms of business conversations around topics such as defining work, centering the economy around care, how jobs work and wages are gendered, violence in the workplace, horizontal and peer-to-peer organizational structures that don’t depend on dominance, enlightened leadership models, and power. As this book demonstrates, feminism has already had a profound impact on business, with many of its key tenets incorporated into business thinking.As one of the first books to offer feminist insights and critiques of business to the practicing manager, business student, and non-academic, this book offers a fresh, positive vision that is remarkably relevant.

Recenzijos

'Rigorous, articulate and passionately argued, Celia Harquails Feminism: A Key Idea for Business and Society is a must read primer on the values and goals of feminism and the gulf that still lies between them and the objectives of business-as-usual. This is not a work of mere idealism: Harquail challenges the status quo with an erudite summary of our present "profit for some" versus "flourishing for all" approach to professional work and its role in our lives. She offers cogent ideas for overthrowing, rather than tinkering with, the systemic oppressions of sexism, racism and other entrenched injustices in business and society, and how feminism envisions and encompasses both meaningful, fairly compensated work and a holistic human life for all.' Whitney Johnson, disruption and innovation expert, speaker, podcaster, and best-selling author of "Build an A-Team" and "Disrupt Yourself".

'Finally, an engaging and opinionated book that is jam-packed with insights, explanations and examples of why feminism is needed in the workplace. A must read for corporate leaders and feminists, Feminism: A Key Idea for Business and Society, takes us a leap closer to understanding how businesses can better balance profit-seeking behavior with equality and justice for all.' Dr. Barbara Orser, Professor of Management, University of Ottowa, Canada and co-author of "Feminine Capital: Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs".

'Presenting leaders with a compelling definition of feminism that is a call to action, this book highlights the relevance of feminism to business. In highlighting the oppression, privilege, and domination that characterize business culture, Celia V. Harquail challenges the reader to reflect, question, critique, and even disagree with her. The book offers an invitation that business leaders can no longer afford to ignore it is time to change the rules of the game. Feminism is a catalyst for the ways that business can be a force for positive social and economic transformation.' -- Stacy Blake-Beard, Professor of Management, Simmons University, USA and Indian School of Business, India.

'As we look around all corners of the globe, feminism is in action. This accessible text introduces the reader to the most contemporary subjects and crucially asks critical organizational questions that benefit from the engagement with feminism.' Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, Australia

'Business and feminism may seem an unlikely combination at first glance. This wonderfully innovative and readable book brings them together to great effect. Celia Harquail provides all of the tools needed to really make a feminist difference at work.' -- Scott Taylor, Birmingham University, UK

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction To Feminist Interventions In Management And Business 1(13)
Why don't business people seem interested in feminism?
2(2)
Protecting business's magic circle
4(1)
Feminism in three interventions
5(2)
Overview of this book
7(1)
Tips to help you manage the contradictions of this book
8(4)
Two caveats
12(2)
1 A primer on feminism for business
14(32)
Introduction
14(1)
Defining feminism
14(29)
Unfolding a working definition of feminism
15(1)
Feminism starts with "equality for women"
16(1)
Feminism also means "equality among women"
17(1)
Combining these two standards of equality
17(3)
Flourishing: the goal of feminism
20(1)
Feminism leads with a critique of sexism and patriarchy
20(1)
Feminism addresses all systems of oppression
21(1)
The transitive property of oppression
22(1)
Feminism is protective and constructive
23(1)
Protective feminism
23(1)
Constructive feminism
24(1)
Transforming the system
25(1)
Constructive feminism's core values for business
25(2)
Understanding the core values
27(2)
How feminists see the world: truth, knowledge, and objectivity
29(1)
Feminist perspectives on objectivity and truth
29(1)
Feminism challenges meta epistemology
30(1)
Knowledge from a standpoint
31(1)
Local, authentic truths from an acknowledged standpoint
32(1)
Critical consciousness
32(1)
How feminism understands oppression, privilege, and domination
33(1)
From bodies to domination: the "story" of sexism and patriarchy
33(1)
Step 1 Biology and binary thinking
34(1)
Step 2 gendering
34(1)
Gender as a performance
35(1)
Gendering is culturally specific and historically contingent
36(1)
Gendering is oppositional and hierarchical
36(1)
Step 3 essentializing: bodies cause differences
37(1)
Step 4 Male dominance: patriarchy
38(1)
Patriarchy as a structure of male privilege
39(1)
Sexism as foundation and model for all other oppressions
40(1)
Sexism is a single axis of oppression
40(1)
Multiple oppressions contribute to women's inequality
40(1)
Kyriarchy, the matrix of domination
41(1)
Moving forward
42(1)
Questions
43(1)
Mini Box: privilege, defined
43(1)
References
43(3)
2 Obstacles and approaches to gender equality in business
46(36)
Introduction
46(1)
Obstacles to gender equality: neoliberalism, postfeminism, and gender structure
47(31)
Neoliberalism
47(1)
More market
48(1)
Less government, less community
48(1)
Celebrating Homo economicus
49(1)
"Business" "logic" everywhere
50(1)
Postfeminism
51(6)
Why "post"feminism?
51(1)
Postfeminism focuses on individual women's agency
53(1)
Silencing conversation about actual sexism
54(1)
Contradictory logic of organizational efforts to ease gender inequality
55(1)
The fatigue of conflicting realities
56(1)
Feminism-lite
56(1)
Contradictions of postfeminism in business point to deeper issues
57(1)
Gender structure in organizations
58(1)
The framework ofgender structure
59(2)
Common approaches to achieving gender equality in organizations
61(1)
Organizational approaches for gender equality
61(9)
Why aren't these change approaches more effective?
70(1)
Individual approaches for gender equality in organizations
70(6)
Gateway feminism: entry points to the revolution
76(2)
Questions
78(1)
References
78(4)
3 Feminist interventions in core business concepts
82(69)
Introduction
82(1)
Comparing conventional and feminist perspectives
82(7)
Q1 What should be the goals of business and work?
83(1)
Q2 How should collective coordination and control be achieved?
84(1)
Q3 What values will lead to business success?
85(4)
Feminist interventions in core business concepts
89(36)
Which topics should we focus on when applying feminism to business?
89(1)
Redefining "work" and re-centering the economy
90(1)
Why redefining work matters
91(1)
Productive and reproductive labor
91(2)
New types of work identified by feminists
93(2)
How valuable work is made to disappear
95(1)
Disappearance through selective attention
96(1)
Recognizing the care economy
97(2)
Re-centering the economy around care
99(1)
Work-family-life conflict
100(5)
Are there real options for eliminating work-life tension?
105(2)
Gendered work, gendered wages
107(1)
Why care about gendered segregation in business?
107(2)
Gendering drives power, status, and wages
109(1)
Many would argue that occupational segregation occurs by choice
110(1)
Gendering wages
111(3)
Foundations of organizational structure
114(1)
The feminist critique of bureaucracy
114(1)
Feminist organizational design alternatives
115(1)
Hybrid feminist bureaucratic forms
116(1)
Governance
117(1)
Employee and member ownership
117(1)
Fully sustainable business models
117(1)
Reconsidering organizational culture
118(1)
Understanding the presence and persistence of gender inequality
119(2)
Bodies in the workplace
121(1)
Bodies separated from minds are easy to dehumanize
122(1)
Bodies represent uncontrollable nature
122(1)
Breastfeeding bodies interfere with working bodies
123(1)
Dressing to manage women's bodies
124(1)
Harmful workplace experiences
125(4)
Violence creates and sustains domination and oppression
126(1)
Violence supports obedience
126(1)
Sexual harassment
127(1)
Incivility and micro-aggressions
128(1)
Models of leadership and expressions of power
129(12)
Traditional patriarchal leadership
130(1)
Unexamined assumptions skew our understanding of leadership
130(1)
Evolution of leadership models
131(4)
False hopes raised by women in (male) leadership
135(1)
What about feminist leadership?
136(5)
Conclusion
141(1)
Questions
142(1)
References
142(9)
Conclusion 151(4)
Index 155
Celia V. Harquail, PhD, is co-founder of Feminists at Work and co-producer of Entrepreneurial Feminist Forums. She consults and writes about feminist business practice, and has taught at the Darden Graduate School of Business, UVA and Stevens Institute of Technology.