Performing Gender at Work

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Elisabeth Kelan

   Pages 1-10

3. Changes at Work and in Gender Relations

   • Elisabeth Kelan

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4. Theorising Performing Gender

   • Elisabeth Kelan

   Pages 40-69

5. Ideal Workers, Ideal Gender

   • Elisabeth Kelan

   Pages 70-106

6. Performing Gendered Work Biographies

   • Elisabeth Kelan

   Pages 107-144

7. Gender as an Ideological Dilemma

   • Elisabeth Kelan

   Pages 145-181

8. Conclusions

   • Elisabeth Kelan

   Pages 182-188

9. Back Matter

   Pages 189-253

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Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations.

• biography
• discourse
• fluid
• gender
• Lemma
• methods
• novel
• work

"A strongly motivated, compelling piece of research, Elisabeth Kelan challenges us to think about the ways in which the evolving economy shapes new gender inequities. Her eye popping investigation into how gender progress lags as technology expands is a must read." - Sylvia Ann Hewlett, President, Center for Work Life Policy

• Department of Management, King’s College London, UK

  Elisabeth Kelan

ELISABETH KELAN, PhD, is Professor of Leadership at Cranfield School of Management. She has written numerous academic articles and two books. The Times featured her as one of the management thinkers to watch and her research was reported in The Financial Times, ABC News, Die Zeit and El País amongst others. She sits on the advisory boards of the Women's Empowerment Principles, a partnership initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact, and the National Society of High School Scholars Foundation. She is an associate editor of the journal Gender, Work and Organization and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Management. She previously worked at London Business School and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
 
 

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