Introduction PART ONE: ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: A CRITIQUE Differential Recruitment and Control - Joan Acker and Donald R Van Houten The Sex Structuring of Organizations Room For Women - Peta Tancred-Sheriff and E Jane Campbell A Case Study in the Sociology of Organizations Gender and Organizations - Jeff Hearn and P Wendy Parkin A Selective Review and a Critique of a Neglected Area PART TWO: TOWARDS FEMINISM AS RADICAL ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS Sex and Organizational Analysis - Gibson Burrell Organization, Gender and Culture - Albert J Mills A Feminist Perspective on State Bureaucracy - Judith Grant and Peta Tancred-Sheriff PART THREE: FROM THEORY TO APPLICATION: EXPLORATIONS IN FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS Sex Ratios, Sex Role Spillover and Sex at Work - Barbara A Gutek and Aaron Groff Cohen A Comparison of Men's and Women's Experiences Women Managers' Perceptions of Gender and Organizational Life - Deborah Sheppard `The Clerking Sisterhood' - Susan Porter Benson Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores 1890-1960 Merit and Gender - Clare Burton Organizations and the Mobilization of Masculine Bias PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY VOICES An/Other Silent Voice? - Marta B Calas Representing `Hispanic Women' in Organizational Texts Using the `F' Word - Marta B Calas and Linda Smircich Feminist Theories and the Social Consequences of Organizational Research Re-Visioning Women Managers' Lives - Ella Louise Bell and Stella Nkomo Gendering Organizational Theory - Joan Acker