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a| Gherardi, Silvia.

a| Gendertelling in Organizations.

a| 1st ed.

a| Frederiksberg : b| Samfundslitteratur, c| 2007.

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a| Intro -- Gendertelling in Organizations: Narratives from male-dominated environments -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Gendering narratives and ­narrating gender -- 1.1. Gender, discourse and organizations -- 1.2 Gender as practice and institution -- 1.3 Gender as organizational narrative -- The construction of a gendered self -- Socialization to the organizational culture -- Narratives and organizational learning -- Defining careers -- Organizational change -- 1.4 Gender and narrative: a methodological frame­work -- 1.5 Gendertelling in traditionally male contexts -- Chapter 2: The Discursive Production of Selves -- 2.1 Narrative selves and gender positionings -- 2.2 The plots of the female stories: choices and coincidences -- 2.3 The plots of the male stories: the path marked out, and marking out one's own path -- 2.4 The narrative construction of difference -- An engineer in the herd -- A women shift leader -- 2.5 Narrating gender between the exceptional and the ordinary -- Chapter 3: Women Tell Their Stories: Challenges and Windmills -- 3.1 The twofold challenge: different from men but also from other women -- 3.2 Stories of challenge and challengers -- Challenge as struggle -- Challenge as adventure -- Challenge as affirmation -- Challenge as gender denial -- 3.3 Women and windmills -- Chapter 4: Men Tell Their Stories: Gender Is Not a Problem! -- 4.1 How was She welcomed? -- 4.2 Men's positionings: the detached observer, the risk-taker, the cadet -- 4.3 His reaction to Her challenges -- 4.4 How the work of men becomes male work -- 4.5 Women? They're all envious! -- 4.6 Conclusions: the reticent masculinity -- Chapter 5: Living in Parallel Worlds -- 5.1 The resistance raised by a masculinist gender culture: a construction site is no place for a woman.

a| 5.2 A traditional gender culture: agriculture -- 5.3 A tendentially paritarian gender culture: the world of information technology -- 5.4 The visible glass ceiling: the retailing world -- 5.5 The small family firm grows and discovers women -- 5.6 Industry innovates and takes on graduates: the dual-regime gender culture -- 5.7 Multinational companies and local cultures -- 5.8 Licence to compete: journalism -- 5.9 When jobs are feminized, they are taken by women: the insurance world -- 5.10 Bureaucracy as the guarantor of parallel paths: the world of banking -- 5.11 A paritarian gender culture: desk work -- 5.12 Being a couple in an organization -- 5.13 Conclusions: cultural regimes and gender citizenship -- Chapter 6: In a World of (Gendered) Rules -- 6.1 Necessary conditions -- Showing willingness and dedication -- Face time as competent performance -- Giving priority to the job over the family -- 6.2 Prescriptions -- Being determined and assertive -- Valuing belligerence and competitiveness -- Being able to take risks -- 6.3 Tactics -- Proving your worth and passing 'tests' -- Adopting 'one down' strategies - deliberately and critically assuming a female posture -- Establishing co-equal relationships and adopting a 'warm' relational style -- 6.4 The double bind: how to manage the ambivalence of models -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

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