ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter I outlined some major historical shifts in the relations of the public domains and private domains, and their significance for public men and public masculinities. In this chapter, rather than focus on the social and spatial spread of public domains, I am more concerned with the internal structures of institutions and organizations themselves. The movement to public patriarchies is thus not an abstract process: it develops through particular social institutions, most significantly through organizations. The forms that organizations take are major features of the form of public patriarchies; in turn organizations construct and are dominantly constructed by public men and public masculinities. This applies in both the formal structuring and social processes of organizational life. This is to be seen in the immense change in the size, shape, power, hierarchy, and complexity of the organizations of the public domains over the last hundred years or more-in economic organizations, capitalist and corporate, national and multinational; state and government; the military and military industries; international agencies of all types; science; education; religion; the professions; the sex industries; crime; covert, surveillance, and ‘security’ industries; retail and distribution; information processing, communications, telecommunications and transportation; clubs and cultural associations.
