TY - JOUR

T1 - Disrupting masculinities within leadership

T2 - Problems of embodiment, ethics, identity and power

AU - Knights, David

PY - 2021/4/1

Y1 - 2021/4/1

N2 - This study provides a concise summary of the book Leadership, Gender and Ethics: Embodied Reason in challenging Masculinities, New York and London: Routledge, 2021. It examines the masculinity of leadership and how through an embodied form of reasoning, it might be challenged or disrupted. A central argument of the book is that masculine leadership elevates rationality in ways that marginalise the body and feelings and often has the effect of sanctioning unethical behaviour. In exploring this thesis, the book provides an analysis of the comparatively neglected issues of identity/anxiety, power/resistance, diversity/gender and the body/masculinities surrounding the concept and practice of leadership.

AB - This study provides a concise summary of the book Leadership, Gender and Ethics: Embodied Reason in challenging Masculinities, New York and London: Routledge, 2021. It examines the masculinity of leadership and how through an embodied form of reasoning, it might be challenged or disrupted. A central argument of the book is that masculine leadership elevates rationality in ways that marginalise the body and feelings and often has the effect of sanctioning unethical behaviour. In exploring this thesis, the book provides an analysis of the comparatively neglected issues of identity/anxiety, power/resistance, diversity/gender and the body/masculinities surrounding the concept and practice of leadership.

KW - Leadership

KW - masculinities

KW - gender

KW - identity

KW - ethics

KW - power

U2 - 10.1177/17427150211004053

DO - 10.1177/17427150211004053

M3 - Journal article

VL - 18

SP - 266

EP - 276

JO - Leadership

JF - Leadership

SN - 1742-7150

IS - 2

ER -