Ruth Simpson

Patricia Lewis

Yvonne Benschop

This edited book inserts postfeminism (PF) as a critical concept into understandings of work and organization. While the notion of PF has been extensively investigated in cultural and media studies, it has yet to emerge within organization studies - remaining marginal to understandings of work based experiences and subjectivities. Understanding PF as a discursive cultural context not only draws on an established epistemological orientation to organizations as discursively constructed and reproduced but allows us to highlight how PF may underpin and be underpinned by other discursive regimes This book, as the first in the field, draws on key international authors to explore: the contextual ‘backdrop’ of PF and its links with neo-liberalism, transnational feminism and other hegemonic discourses; the different ways in which this backdrop has infiltrated organizational values and practice through the primacy attached to choice, merit and individual agency as well as through the widespread perception that gender disadvantage has been ‘solved’; and the implications for organizational subjectivity and for how inequality is experienced and perceived. This book introduces postfeminism as a critical concept with contemporary importance for the study of organizations, arguing for its explanatory potential when: Exploring women’s and men’s experience of managing and organizing; Investigating the gendered aspects of organizational life; Analysing the contemporary validation of the feminine and the associated feminization of management/leadership and organizations; Tracing the emergence of new femininities and masculinities within organizational contexts. The book is ideal reading for researchers working in the area of Gender and Organization Studies but is also of interest to researchers in the areas of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Women’s Studies and Sociology.

Postfeminism and Organization

United Nations

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

Jozef Goldblat

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research Staff

Vilmos Cserveny

Jez Littlewood

This publication, written in English and Arabic, contains an edited collection of papers given at the conference, held in February 2003 in Cairo, organised by the League of Arab States and UNIDIR. The objective of the meeting was to discuss global non-proliferation regimes, regional experiences with establishing nuclear weapons free zones (NWFZs), the role of international organisations and practical options for the creation of a 'weapons of mass destruction' (WMD) free zone in the Middle East.

Global Non-proliferation Regimes and Regional Experiences

انشاء منطقة خالية من اسلحة الدمار الشامل في الشرق الاوسط

Natasha Slutskaya

Heather Höpfl

This book explores new understandings and contemporary experiences of dirty work – tasks or roles that are seen to be disgusting or degrading. Through novel empirical sites that include nursing, medicalization, sex workers, sex call operators, financiers and women's magazines, the book offers new theoretical insights into a form of work that is increasing in significance in the contemporary labour market. By drawing on concepts such as staining, embodiment and 'whiteness', it complicates the clean/dirty divide in the context of work and contributes to understandings of dirty work as contingent, fluid and socially constructed. It offers rich insights into the complex ways in which such work is experienced and the variety of strategies drawn on as dirty workers seek to manage identity.

Concepts and Identities

Dirty Work

Have you ever wanted to say something but not had the words to say exactly what you wanted to say? Has God touched your life in a special way but nothing you say expresses the joy you feel? Do you sometimes want to tell that special someone how deep your feelings are for them but you trip over you tongue when speaking? or have you been deep in anger and just wanted to tell that somebody off? This collection of poems can do just that. Whether praising God, expressing love or just telling the World how you feel, Patricia An Anthology of Poems, Thoughts and Letters has something for every reader. Patricia Anthology of Poems, Thoughts and Letters speaks to the heart and soul of every man, woman and child.

An Anthology of Poems, Thoughts and Letters

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