ABSTRACT
This chapter extends with samples of the ways in which men drew on entrepreneurial discourse to describe the personal responsibility they felt in a number of career areas. All of the men spoke about their careers either as completely individual endeavors or as requiring significant independent action to achieve success. The work of Michel Foucault is extremely useful in analyzing entrepreneurialism. He claimed that power defines the conditions of possibility that underscore the way individuals experience themselves as people or their potential self. Evidence of entrepreneurialism threaded through the interviews for this study and resonated through almost every work-related discussion. Part of the ideology of entrepreneurialism is the notion of self-surveillance, monitoring, and control. Lewis's study of women entrepreneurs found that the women's commitment to entrepreneurship was one way to achieve better work-life balance. In this way, the discourse of entrepreneurialism is an alternative discourse: Women embrace entrepreneurialism as a way to subvert organizational control over their private lives.
