An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural study of masculinities in organizational settings is provided in this volume. The contributions shed new light on many of the misconceptions that have plagued the study of organizations, arguing that: sex and gender are not synonymous; masculinity is not homogenous; and that the difference presented by masculinities and men needs to be studied if valuing differences in organizations is to occur.
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This was an informative, intersectional analysis combining men's studies and organizational behavior. The anthology has a nice range in topics. Michael Messner once wrote that women, generally, are more interested in men's studies than men, so it is not surprising that slightly more women than men contributed chapters to this work. Do know that two of the nine chapters are printed in the Fourth Edition of "Men's Lives."Gender studies scholarship maintains that gender affects everything. For those that believe that claim, as I do, this book helps spell unique ways in which this occurs. However, this book will frustrate those who do not believe that claim. In one chapter, the author says men take risks and that masculine drive may have played a role in the 1986 Challenger explosion. Others would say greed and poor planning caused that, not masculinity. One chapter said perhaps women don't enter the computer industry when users employ language like "aborting" programs. Political fights over abortion, some would say, have nothing to do with the semantics that "to abort" means "to halt anything in progress." Skeptics of gender studies should be warned. Each chapter cites and supports the work of R.W. Connell. For examples, the contributors take as a given that there are multiple masculinities, not just one. They contrast the masculinity of engineers versus businessmen, Americans versus foreigners, and white men versus Asian men. This differs radically from Lisa Lindsay's "Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa" in which each chapter challenges Connell. The book is daring in writing that "masculinities can be performed by women and men" rather than stating "masculinities can be performed by men and women." I loved the irony and gender-transgression of that statement.
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- Social Psychology (Nelson-Hall Series in Psychology) by Stephen Worchel on page 94, page 156, and page 159
- Social Psychology (12th Edition) by Shelley E. Taylor on page 74, and page 159
- Studyguide for Social Psychology by Taylor, ISBN 9780130990068 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews on page 74, and page 159
- Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Social Psychology by Leonard Berkowitz on page 155, and page 158
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- Men and Masculinities: Key Themes and New Directions by Stephen M. Whitehead on 4 pages
- Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online by Lori Kendall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Organizational Behaviour Reassessed: The Impact of Gender by Elisabeth M Wilson on page 209, page 210, and page 211
- Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations: The Unspoken Forces of Organization Violations by Jeff R Hearn in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women Transforming Congress (Congressional Studies Series) by Cindy Simon Rosenthal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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