Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Constructing selves -- 2 Refusing to be 'me' -- 3 Personal resistance through persistence to organizational resistance through distance -- Part II Resisting subjects in context -- 4 Resistance to diversity initiatives -- 6 Gendered identities and micro-political resistance in public service organizations -- 7 Reforming managerialism? -- 8 When plausibility fails -- 9 Resistance to organizational culture change -- Part III Questioning the politics in micro-political resistance -- 10 Webs of resistance in transnational call centres -- 11 The bearable lightness of being -- Index.

This book represents the coming together of two key debates within organization studies: theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance. These debates have been given renewed vigour with the 'postmodern turn' in organization studies and feminist theory. Fusing these two literatures together offers a far deeper understanding of the issues of power, subjectivity and agency. Representing a growing interest in the contributions that feminist theorizing can offer to the study of organizations, this book focuses on issues of gender and resistance in organizations and, in particular, presents theorising which attends to the dualistic debate of compliance versus resistance to offer more generative understandings of reistance.

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