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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450503403321

Titolo

Transforming managers : gendering change in the public sector / / [edited by] Stephen Whitehead, Roy Moodley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-135-35856-7

1-280-14612-5

0-203-97900-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Gender, change and society

Altri autori (Persone)

MoodleyRoy

WhiteheadStephen (Stephen M.)

Disciplina

352.3/0941

Soggetti

Women government executives - Great Britain

Government executives - Great Britain

Sex role in the work environment - Great Britain

Masculinity

Women executives

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: locating personal and political transformations; 2 New women, new Labour? Gendered transformations in the House; 3 The under-representation of women managers in higher education; 4 Rhetoric versus reality; 5 Power and resistance in the academy; 6 How does it feel?; 7 In the company of men; 8 Men, managers and management; 9 Intermanagerial rivalries, organizational restructuring and the transformation of management masculinities; 10 A personal encounter; 11 The organization of intimacy

12 Man management13 Masculine/managerial masks and the "other" subject; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This text addresses a wide range of theoretical ideas and methodologies in the examination of gendered organisations. The need to examine men in relation to family, law and society is growing, and



this book extends this interrogation to work and