Gender, Power and Organisations - Tapa dura

This text offers an overview and synthesis of theory and research into the gendered dimension of organizations, exploring how gender difference is constructed within organizations and intertwined with organizational power relations. Assuming little prior knowledge on the part of the reader, it examines a series of key areas of substantive interest in the study of organizations, bringing to bear a wide range of social and feminist theory in understanding the processes in play.

SUSAN HALFORD is Senior Lecturer and PAULINE LEONARD is Research Fellow, both in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton. Both authors have research interests in the broad field of gender and organisations and have published widely in this area. Their current research explores the construction of gendered identities in changing organisational contexts.