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Revealing and Concealing Gender

Contents Biographies of Contributors Introduction: Theoretical Insights into the Practices of Revealing and Concealing Gender within Organizations Patricia Lewis and Ruth Simpson

Introduction Surface and deep conceptualizations of (in)visibility The invisible norm Visibility and invisibility within the margins The ‘(In)visibility Vortex’ Concealment and preservation within the norm Revelation, exposure and disappearance in the margins Revelation Exposure Disappearance Complexities within the vortex The structure of the book

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1 Living and Working in Grey Areas: Gender (In)visibility and Organizational Space Melissa Tyler and Laurie Cohen

Introduction Researching Grey Areas Gender, space and work in Grey Areas Working in a goldfish bowl: being shiny, happy and accessible Fracture and fragmentation: being/becoming (in)visible There but not there: identifying with the trash Concluding thoughts: Gender (in)visibility and organizational space Acknowledgements

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2 A Question of Membership Heather Höpfl

Not part of the game Men only (irrespective of gender) The phallus as an emblem of membership In the presence of huge erections Women lack membership Women as strangers Women should be seen and not heard Not a world of flesh and blood Management tools Women as leaders What can a woman do? Converted to reason Signed in

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3 Pregnancy Centre Stage, Please: Contesting the Erasure of Pregnant Bodies from Workplace Space Caroline Gatrell

Maternal bodies and management theory and practice Research method Ethics and anonymity Research findings – Keeping the pregnant body ‘off-stage’ Announcing pregnancy at work ‘Forget you are pregnant and just get on with it all’ Changes to workplace practices Supra-performing pregnant bodies In sickness and in health…visibility and the pregnant body at work Abjuring the visibly pregnant body

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4 ‘Mothered’ and Othered: (In)visibility of Care Responsibility and Gender in Processes of Excluding Women from Norwegian Law Firms1 Selma Therese Lyng

Introduction Male and female lawyers on the A-team The ‘up-and-go career contract’ in Norwegian corporate law firms A masculine career contract? Entering parenthood: ‘Mothered’ and othered Invisibilizing motherhood: ‘De-mothering’ counter strategies Visible mothers – invisible fathers: Gendered meanings of parenthood Dominant discourses: Individualizing and gender essentializing female drop-out Prospects of visibilizing and ‘de-othering’ care responsibility Conclusion Notes

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5 Organizing Entrepreneurship? Women’s Invisibility in Self-employment Deborah Kerfoot and Caroline Miller

Introduction Barriers to entry Women’s orientation: bringing gender into entrepreneurship Gendered work Research context The case of a self-employment workforce Day one Day two Day three Day four Day five Making sense of self-employment: themes from interview data Discussion and conclusion: visibility, invisibility and entrepreneurship

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6 ‘Mumpreneurs’: Revealing the Post-feminist Entrepreneur Patricia Lewis

Introduction Women, enterprise and detraditionalization Women, enterprise and retraditionalization Conclusion Notes References

7 Masculinities in Practice: The Invisible Dynamics in Sports Leadership Irene Ryan

Introduction The ‘where’ and ‘when’ questions of sport leadership A history of female presence and ethos in leadership Invisibility and absence in leadership Organizational structures and barriers to leadership Concluding thoughts Notes

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8 Leadership and the (In)visibility of Gender Jennifer Binns

Introduction The study Discussion: Dimensions of gender invisibility Discursive (in)visibility Corporeal (in)visibility The identity work of (in)visibility Closing thoughts

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9 ‘Now you see me, now you don’t’: The Visibility Paradox for Women in a Male-Dominated Profession Jacqueline H. Watts

Introduction Gendered visibility of minority corporate actors The visibility/vulnerability spiral Context Methods Leading the building team Closing out the deal Professional advancement Conclusion References

10 The Critical (and Subversive) Act of (In)visibility: A Strategic Reframing of ‘Disappeared and Devalued’ Women in a Densely Masculinist1 Workplace Susan Harwood

Introduction A brief overview of the research methodology ‘Naomi’ ‘Melinda’ ‘Andrea’ ‘Gail’ Double duty, double bind, double the rise A forensic examination of the feminist facilitator Conclusion Notes

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11 A Reversal of the Gaze: Men’s Experiences of Visibility in Non-traditional Occupations Ruth Simpson

Introduction The power of the gaze Method The gaze as pleasurable, enabling The gaze as oppressive, constraining The desire for invisibility Conclusion

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12 Gender, Mask and the Face: Towards a Corporeal Ethics Alison Pullen and Carl Rhodes

Revelation and gender What is a mask? What is under the masks? The mask of knowledge Corporeal ethics Ethics against gender Conclusion

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