Feminism : a key idea for business and society /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | Key ideas in business and management
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Endorsement Page; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to feminist interventions in management and business; Why don't business people seem interested in feminism?; Protecting business's magic circle; Feminism in three interventions; Overview of this book; Tips to help you manage the contradictions of this book; Two caveats; Chapter 1 A primer on feminism for business; Introduction; Defining feminism; Unfolding a working definition of feminism; Feminism starts with "equality for women."
- Feminism also means "equality among women"Combining these two standards of equality; Flourishing: the goal of feminism; Feminism leads with a critique of sexism and patriarchy; Feminism addresses all systems of oppression; The transitive property of oppression; Feminism is protective and constructive; Protective feminism; Constructive feminism; Transforming the system; Constructive feminism's core values for business; Understanding the core values; How feminists see the world: truth, knowledge, and objectivity; Feminist perspectives on objectivity and truth
- Feminism challenges meta epistemologyKnowledge from a standpoint; Local, authentic truths from an acknowledged standpoint; Critical consciousness; How feminism understands oppression, privilege, and domination; From bodies to domination: the "story" of sexism and patriarchy; Step 1: biology and binary thinking; Step 2: gendering; Gender as a performance; Gendering is culturally specific and historically contingent; Gendering is oppositional and hierarchical; Step 3: essentializing: bodies cause differences; Step 4: male dominance: patriarchy; Patriarchy as a structure of male privilege
- Sexism as foundation and model for all other oppressionsSexism is a single axis of oppression; Multiple oppressions contribute to women's inequality; Kyriarchy, the matrix of domination; Moving forward; Questions; Mini Box: privilege, defined; References; Chapter 2 Obstacles and approaches to gender equality in business; Introduction; Obstacles to gender equality: neoliberalism, postfeminism, and gender structure; Neoliberalism; More market; Less government, less community; Celebrating Homo economicus; "Business" "logic" everywhere; Postfeminism; Why "post" feminism?
- Postfeminism focuses on individual women's agencySilencing conversation about actual sexism; Contradictory logic of organizational efforts to ease gender inequality; The fatigue of conflicting realities; Feminism-lite; Contradictions of postfeminism in business point to deeper issues; Gender structure in organizations; The framework of gender structure; Common approaches to achieving gender equality in organizations; Organizational approaches for gender equality; Why aren't these change approaches more effective?; Individual approaches for gender equality in organizations