Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice

Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. As the intricate relationship between the symbolic and the everyday remains under-researched, this anthology proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective drawing on the humanities in order to explore the complex nature of the gendered politics of organizations. Indeed, analyzing how images, narratives, symbols and bodies are all part of how power and gender are constructed in organizations through a broad and international range of empirical studies, Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice explores issues at the interstices of the humanities and social sciences, combining theoretical and analytical perspectives from both areas. Providing a radical analysis of the gendered dynamics of power as well as petitioning for radical intervention into those dynamics, this timely volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as: Organization and Management Studies, Gender studies, Feminist theory and Sociology of Work & Industry.

Agnes Bolsø is a Professor within the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stine H. Bang Svendsen is Associate Professor of Pedagogy at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Siri Øyslebø Sørensen is a researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

1 Transdisciplinary Interventions Agnes Boslø Stine Helena Bang Svendsen Siri Øyslebø Sørensen 2 Representations of women dressed for power Agnes Bolsø Wencke Mühleisen 3 Face of Finance Anne Gjelsvik 4 Beautiful soldiers: Depicting a Gender Inclusive Army Stine Helena Bang Svendsen 5 Beyond fashion's alluring surface: Connecting the fashion image and the lived realities of women workers in the fashion industry Louise Wallenberg Torkild Thanem 6 Women at sea: sexual disorder and discipline Agnes Bolsø Lise Langåker Wencke Mühleisen 7 The Genesis of Leaders: Women in the Petroleum Industry Marit Aure 8 Making sense of downsizing: exploring masculinities in the Norwegian oil industry Maria Dockweiler Øystein Gullvåg Holter Lotta Snickare 9 When office life becomes life - a study of investment banking Lotta Snickare Øystein Gullvåg Holter 10 Women to the rescue? Gender, power and idealism in the third sector Siri Øyslebø Sørensen 11 A leadership ethics of sexual difference? Alison Pullen Sheena J. Vachhani 12 Organizational Scenarios for Human Evolution Agnes Bolsø Wencke Mühleisen 13 Gender, Power and Feminist Resistance Lynne Segal Epilogue: Residues from the past and emerging structures of feeling Editors