ABSTRACT

Over the past ten to fifteen years there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality. These concerns, however, have consistently been reduced to issues of management and regulation. There is now a growing need to confront issues related to the dehumanization of organizations. This book brings these issues together, presenting an original construction of the organization via an emphasis on the (m)other.
This book is not a feminist tract, nor is it primarily about the experiences of women in organizations. It rather argues that conventional representations of the organization are patriarchal, masculine, directed by the animus and that such representations reduce the notion of 'organization' to abstract relationships, rational actions and purposive behaviour.
This challenging book will be of essential interest to all critical management theorists. With its innovative approach, it will also appeal to students, teachers, and all those looking for an approach to management that does justice to the complexity, ambivalence and chaos of the world of organizing.

chapter |12 pages

Maternal Organisation

Deprivation and Denial

chapter |25 pages

The Motherhood of the Road

From Paradise Lost to Paradise

chapter |17 pages

Maiden, Mother, Mistress, Monster

Controlled and Uncontrolled Female Power and the Curse of the Body in the Early Victorian Novel – Implications of Historical Stereotyping for Women Managers

chapter |16 pages

The Mother and the Masquerade

Elizabeth – Whole or Unholy Woman?

chapter |18 pages

Images of Madonna and Fugue

A Microscopic Interlude

chapter |22 pages

Triptychs of Curating

Conversations with Mothers of the in-Between

chapter |7 pages

Beyond the Fetishism of the Mother

A Remark on the Event as Folded Effects