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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807836003321

Titolo

Men as managers, managers as men : critical perspectives on men, masculinities, and managements / / edited by David L. Collinson and Jeff Hearn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, 1996

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Sage Publications, , 1996

ISBN

9786612337093

9781446280102

1446280101

9781282337091

1282337092

9781849208277

1849208271

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 275 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CollinsonDavid

HearnJeff <1947->

Disciplina

305.33658

Soggetti

Executives

Masculinity

Men - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; The Contributors; 1 - Breaking the Silence: On Men, Masculinities and Managements; 2 - Masters and Men in the Transition from Factory Hands to Sentimental Workers; 3 - The Gender of Bureaucracy; 4 - Technocracy, Patriarchy and Management; 5 - 'The Best is Yet to Come?': The Quest for Embodiment in Managerial Work; 6 - Entrepreneurialism and Paternalism in Australian Management: A Gender Critique of the 'Self-Made' Man; 7 - Entrepreneurialism, Masculinitiesand the Self-Made Man; 8 - Quiet Whispers . . . Men Accounting for Women, West to East

9 - Multinational Masculinities and European Bureaucracies10 - Gendering and Evaluating Dynamics: Men, Masculinities, and



Managements; 11 - ' Seduction and Succession': Circuits of Homosocial Desire in Management; 12 - Managing Universities: Is It Men's Work?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed.