About the Book
Most managers in most organizations in most countries are men. This book is the first international work to address the relationships between men, masculinities and managements. It examines the processes through which gendered managerial structures, cultures and practices are reproduced. Exploring top and middle managers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and public and private sector managers, the book breaks new ground by critically examining the gendered power processes that have largely been assumed and ignored by conventional organizational and management theory.
As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed.
Table of Contents:
Breaking the Silence - David L Collinson and Jeff Hearn
On Men, Masculinities and Managements
Masculinities and Managements in the Transition from Factory Hands to Sentimental Workers - Wendy Hollway
The Gender of Bureaucracy - David Morgan
Technocracy, Patriarchy and Management - Beverly H Burris
The Best Is Yet to Come? Searching for Embodiment in Managerial Work - Deborah Kerfoot and David Knights
Entrepreneurialism and Paternalism in Australian Management - Rosslyn Reed
A Gender Critique for the `Self-Made′ Man
Entrepreneurialism, Masculinities and the `Self-Made′ Man - Kate Mulholland
Quiet Whispers... Men Accounting for Women, West to East - Cheryl R Lehman
Multinational Masculinities and European Bureaucracies - Alison E Woodward
Gendering and Evaluating Dynamics - Patricia Yancey Martin
Men, Masculinities and Managements
`Seduction and Succession′ - Michael Roper
Circuits of Homosocial Desire in Management
Managing Universities - Craig Prichard
Is It Men′s Work?
About the Author :
David L. Collinson is Professor of
Leadership & Organization at Lancaster University Management School.
Jeff Hearn is currently Guest Faculty Research Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, based in Gender Studies and the Centre for Feminist Social Studies, Örebro University, Professor of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, and a UK Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences.
His recent research has focused on transnational change. He has been at the forefront of critical research on men and masculinities, and has published extensively on sociology, organizations, management, policy, gender, sexualities, violences, cultural studies, and autoethnography. His many books include: ‘Sex’ at ‘Work’ (with Wendy Parkin, 1987/1995); The Gender of Oppression (1987), Men in the Public Eye (1992); The Violences of Men (1998); The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (edited with Michael Kimmel and Raewyn Connell, 2005), European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities (with Keith Pringle and CROME, 2006/2009), Men and Masculinities in Europe (with Keith Pringle et al., 2006/2013), Sex, Violence and the Body (edited with Viv Burr, 2008), The Limits of Gendered Citizenship (edited with Elzbieta Oleksy and Dorota Golanska, 2011), Men and Masculinities around the World (edited with Elisabetta Ruspini, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle, 2011), and Rethinking Transnational Men (edited with Marina Blagojevic and Katherine Harrison, 2013). His latest book is Men of the World: Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times (SAGE, 2015).
He is Managing Co-editor of Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series, Co-editor of NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies, and Associate Editor of Gender, Work and Organization. He was formerly Co-editor of Men and Masculinities for many years; Head of Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford; Research Professor, University of Manchester; Professor of Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Linköping University; Professor II, Sociology, Oslo University; and has been Visiting Professor at many universities.
Jeff Hearn has been strongly involved in North-South and European research and policy collaborations, such as the CROME, CAHRV, genSET, GenPORT, and Study on the Role of Men in Gender Equality EU projects, as well as profeminist and related activism over many years.
Review :
`This book is mainly interesting for academics who are already involved in gender issues and/or issues of organizational design. It can stimulate them to translate the ideas brought up in this book into empirical research questions′ - International Journal of Selection and Assessment
`Overall this book makes a valuable addition to the study of both masculinities and of gendering in the workplace. Themes that persistently emerge are the plurality of masculinities and management styles; the centrality of notions of control, rationality and expertise to discourses of masculinity; and the devaluing of women and their expertise.... This is a book to be purchased and enjoyed′ - Sociological Research Online, 1997
`This is a fine collection, with contributions from very many of those we have come to associate with pioneering and arresting insights on masculiniites and how they play out in organizations.... Men as Managers, Managers as Men contributes much to teasing out the multiplicity of masculinities which Bob Connell (1995) argues is so important to a deeper understanding of gender and institutional dynamics. In the past, managerial masculinity has tended to be a one-dimensional concept (not unlike early treatments of women in management... ). We assume the masculinity enacted by managers to be a privileged one, placing and enforcing unquestioned value on instrumentality and control, impersonality and the illusion of expertise. This book helps us move beyond this narrow understanding and come to grips with the multiplicity of masculinities being enacted and re-shaped in managerial lives, their impacts on women, on organizations and the men themselves′ - International Review of Women and Leadership
`These excellent essays raise new and probing questions about gendered power in organizations. They undress management to expose man - his cultures, his manoeuvres, his desires′ - Cynthia Cockburn, City University, London
`The great classic theories of management have taken it for granted that management (hierarchy) and hegemonic masculinities (gender) intersect. This book is the first to break the silence and subject the taboo to scrutiny′ - Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento
`Adding a much-needed and distinctive perspective to the emerging field of gender studies of organizations, the authors of this provocative edited volume reveal, in unexpected ways, how the theory and practice of management have been embedded in assumptions about masculinities′ - Joanne Martin, Stanford University
`I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend the book as a much needed redress to the gender blindness of the research and teaching conducted on managements′ - Capital & Class
