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Revealing and Concealing Gender

Issues of Visibility in Organizations

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Patricia Lewis

    1. Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK

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  2. Ruth Simpson

    1. Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Theoretical Insights into the Practices of Revealing and Concealing Gender within Organizations

    • Patricia Lewis, Ruth Simpson
    Pages 1-22

  3. Living and Working in Grey Areas: Gender (In)visibility and Organizational Space

    • Melissa Tyler, Laurie Cohen
    Pages 23-38

  4. A Question of Membership

    • Heather Höpfl
    Pages 39-53

  5. Pregnancy Centre Stage, Please: Contesting the Erasure of Pregnant Bodies from Workplace Space

    • Caroline Gatrell
    Pages 54-75

  6. ‘Mothered’ and Othered: (In)visibility of Care Responsibility and Gender in Processes of Excluding Women from Norwegian Law Firms

    • Selma Therese Lyng
    Pages 76-99

  7. Organizing Entrepreneurship? Women’s Invisibility in Self-employment

    • Deborah Kerfoot, Caroline Miller
    Pages 100-123

  8. ‘Mumpreneurs’: Revealing the Post-feminist Entrepreneur

    • Patricia Lewis
    Pages 124-138

  9. Masculinities in Practice: The Invisible Dynamics in Sports Leadership

    • Irene Ryan
    Pages 139-157

  10. Leadership and the (In)visibility of Gender

    • Jennifer Binns
    Pages 158-174

  11. ‘Now you see me, now you don’t’: The Visibility Paradox for Women in a Male-Dominated Profession

    • Jacqueline H. Watts
    Pages 175-193

  12. The Critical (and Subversive) Act of (In)visibility: A Strategic Reframing of ‘Disappeared and Devalued’ Women in a Densely Masculinist Workplace

    • Susan Harwood
    Pages 194-218

  13. A Reversal of the Gaze: Men’s Experiences of Visibility in Non-traditional Occupations

    • Ruth Simpson
    Pages 219-232

  14. Gender, Mask and the Face: Towards a Corporeal Ethics

    • Alison Pullen, Carl Rhodes
    Pages 233-248

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 249-257
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About this book

Issues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not only further develop current theoretical ideas around being seen and unseen within organizations, but will also provide us with the opportunity to problematize the concepts of visibility and invisibility.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK

    Patricia Lewis

  • Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK

    Ruth Simpson

About the editors

PATRICIA LEWIS is Senior Lecturer in Management at Kent Business School. Her work on gender and emotion, gender and enterprise, the development of enterprise culture and entrepreneurial identity has been published in Gender, Work and Organization; British Journal of Management; Work, Employment and Society; Human Relations; Journal of Business Ethics.

RUTH SIMPSON is Professor of Management at Brunel Business School. Her research interests include gender and management education, gender and emotions and the careers of men in non-traditional occupations. She has published in Human Relations, Academy of Management (Learning and Education), Gender, Work and Organization and Work, Employment and Society.

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