Performing Gender at Work - Brossura

Kelan, Elisabeth

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ISBN 10: 1349367451 ISBN 13: 9781349367450

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"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

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1349367451
• ISBN 13: 9781349367450
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 264