ABSTRACT
In organizational logic, both jobs and hierarchies are abstract categories that have no occupants, no human bodies, and no gender. Hierarchies, like jobs, are devoid of actual workers and based on abstract differentiations. The concept of “a job” assumes a particular gendered organization of domestic life and social production. This chapter aims to examine by speculating about why feminist scholars have not debated organizational theory. The early radical feminist critique of sexism denounced bureaucracy and hierarchy as male-created and male-dominated structures of control that oppress women. The easiest answer to the “why so little debate” question is that the link between masculinity and organizational power was so obvious that no debate was needed. The chapter also aims to examine organizations as gendered processes in which both gender and sexuality have been obscured through a gender-neutral, asexual discourse, and suggest some of the ways that gender, the body, and sexuality are part of the processes of control in work organizations.
