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TY - JOUR
T1 - Gendered incorporations
T2 - critically embodied reflections on the gender divide in organisation studies
AU - Knights, David
AU - Thanem, Torkild
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - Challenging yet extending extant efforts in organisation studies to disrupt the gender divide, we develop an embodied account to more fundamentally dissolve the binaries that divide conventional forms of female and male embodiment. Despite a proliferation of literature on the body and emotion in sociology and organisation studies, it is our view that much of it remains deeply disembodied, treating the body pretty much like any other sociological phenomenon, i.e., as a mere object of study. In seeking to dissolve the gender divide, we incorporate a number of vignettes in an attempt to write our own bodies into the text. While reflecting about our own masculine (David and Torkild) and transgender (Torkild) embodiment, we critically discuss how transgender, in particular, may constitute a vehicle for challenging and disrupting the gender divide.
AB - Challenging yet extending extant efforts in organisation studies to disrupt the gender divide, we develop an embodied account to more fundamentally dissolve the binaries that divide conventional forms of female and male embodiment. Despite a proliferation of literature on the body and emotion in sociology and organisation studies, it is our view that much of it remains deeply disembodied, treating the body pretty much like any other sociological phenomenon, i.e., as a mere object of study. In seeking to dissolve the gender divide, we incorporate a number of vignettes in an attempt to write our own bodies into the text. While reflecting about our own masculine (David and Torkild) and transgender (Torkild) embodiment, we critically discuss how transgender, in particular, may constitute a vehicle for challenging and disrupting the gender divide.
KW - binaries
KW - female embodiment
KW - male embodiment
KW - emotion
KW - masculinity
KW - transgender
KW - gender divide
KW - organisation studies
U2 - 10.1504/IJWOE.2011.045963
DO - 10.1504/IJWOE.2011.045963
M3 - Journal article
VL - 4
SP - 217
EP - 235
JO - International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion
JF - International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion
SN - 1740-8938
IS - 3-4
ER -