Casting the other : the production and maintenance of inequalities in work organizations /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:x, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Management, organizations and society
Management, organizations and society (London, England)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4704061
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Other authors / contributors:Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara.
Höpfl, Heather.
ISBN:0415275016
0415275024 (PBK.) £25.99
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-223) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Casting the Other: Introduction
  • 1. How do statistical aggregates work? About the individual and organizational effects of general classifications
  • 2. Gender order and disorder: the articulation of women and disorder as resources in the establishment of new medical practices
  • 3. The construction of the female entrepreneur as the Other
  • 4. Keeping the veil of otherness: practising disconnection
  • 5. Construction of gender in corporations
  • 6. Individual vs. collective action: gender inequality and women's action strategies in German and Swedish Business firms
  • 7. Gender-neutral gender and denial of the difference
  • 8. The Black Engel: women from the ruins of the National Board of Building
  • 9. The business case for diversity and the 'Iron Cage'
  • 10. Casting the native subject: ethnographic practice and the (re)production of difference