Revealing and Concealing Gender

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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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.

• entrepreneurship
• gender
• gender research
• leadership
• organization
• women

• Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK

  Patricia Lewis

• Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK

  Ruth Simpson

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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