Deconstructing Harry: A Critical Review of Men, Masculinity and Organization*
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From a few critiques of the gendered nature of organizational research, feminist organizational analysis has developed into a mature paradigm over the past 25 years. The process has involved critique of the existing gendered field, the development and application of feminist theories of organization and a broadening focus to include issues of class, race/ethnicity, and, more recently, masculinity. Inevitably, perhaps, a feature of the developing paradigm has been the growth of conflicting ideas and unresolved contradictions that are now proving problematic as issues of gender enter the mainstream of organizational analysis. Written from within a feminist organizational paradigm, this article argues that further research on the roots of discriminatory practices at work are to some extent hindered by the need to confront and debate conflicting ideas within the field. Thus, with particular reference to the recent interest in masculinities at work, this paper reviews some of the key underlying debates, including the nurture/nature debate, the narrow classifying of masculinity and femininity into mirror opposites, the construction of implicit notions of the ”bad masculine” and the ”good feminine,” and the separation of mascu* An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management in San Diego, California, August 1998. L T A 3 / 0 0 • P . 327 – 3 4 9
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تاریخ انتشار 2001