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The sublime object of desire (for knowledge) : sexuality at work in business and management schools in England
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Fotaki, Marianna (2011) The sublime object of desire (for knowledge) : sexuality at work in business and management schools in England. British Journal of Management, Volume 22 (Number 1). pp. 42-53. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00716.x ISSN 1045-3172.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00716.x
Abstract
This paper explores why and how sexuality intertwines with gender in the organizational context of academic institutions. Drawing on insights from the work of psychoanalyst post-structuralist feminists Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva, we explore the institutionalized abjection of the real and imagined (woman's) body as the root cause of her relative exclusion from knowledge (creation) and her subordinate position in it. The project is analytical as well as political: it both unravels and opposes the ways gender is superimposed on sexuality and how we as academics might collude, legitimize and perpetuate and gendered sexualized (and therefore exclusionary) ways of organizing in/of society. The findings of an empirical study of a sample of women academics in management and business schools in England are discussed in the light of the proposed theory.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Management | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1045-3172 | ||||
Official Date: | March 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 22 | ||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 11 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 42-53 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00716.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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