Reworking Gender

Karen Lee Ashcraft (Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder) specializes in research on organizational communication, gender relations, alternative forms of organizing, ethnography, power and culture. Dennis K. Mumby is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Communication at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His research focuses on the communicative dynamics of organizational control and resistance under neoliberalism. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association, and a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar. He has authored or edited 7 books and over 60 articles in the area of critical organization studies, and his work has appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Management Communication Quarterly, Organization Studies, Organization, and Human Relations. He is past chair of the Organizational Communication Division of NCA, and an 8-time winner of the division's annual research award. He has served as chair of the Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association, and is a recipient of the division's Fredric M. Jablin Award for contributions to the field of organizational communication.

Introduction: Situating Gender in Critical Organization Studies Chapter 1: Feminist Organization Studies in the Wake of the Discursive Turn Chapter 2: Feminism and the Discourses of Modernism: Articulating an Organizational Voice Chapter 3: Postmodernism and Organization Studies: Complicating the Conversation Chapter 4: Organizing at the Intersection of Feminism and Postmodernism Chapter 5: A Feminist Communicology of Organization Chapter 6: A Feminist Communicology of the Airline Pilot: Gender and the Organization of Professional Identity Chapter 7: Conclusion: Reworking Gender in Organization Studies Notes and References

"Reworking Gender is a remarkable analysis of the intersections of discourse, gender, and organizing that not only addresses contemporary metatheoretical concerns but also illuminates these issues with archival and interview data. . . . Reworking Gender systematically lays out arguments for the importance of work in our field, for communication's connections with and potential contributions to related disciplines, and for possible ways in which researchers can continue to challenge boundaries between presumably incommensurable discourses. Without a doubt, Reworking Gender will prove to be a landmark book in feminist, critical-cultural, organization studies, and organizational communication theorizing." -- Patrice M. Buzzanell