1st Edition

Queer Business Queering Organization Sexualities

By Nick Rumens Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

In this modern day and age, it is surprising that managerialist perspectives, practices and ideas are colonising the study of sexualities in organisation. A timely intervention into the contemporary vitality of queer theories, Queer Business is an innovative book length exploration of how queer theory has been used in management and organisation studies, with the aim of broadening and... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Queer Beginnings

Chapter 2: Queer Theory, Sexuality, Management and Organisation Studies

Chapter 3: Queer Theory in Business and Management Schools

Chapter 4: Queer Theory, Research Methodologies and Methods

Chapter 5: Queer Liberalism

Chapter 6: Queering Heterosexuality

Chapter 7: The Future is Queer?

Conclusion

Biography

Nick Rumens is Professor in Human Resource Management at University of Portsmouth, UK.

A first of its kind, this vital volume offers a comprehensive and insightful tour of timely concerns provoked by the uneasy meeting of queer theory and management studies. It powerfully demonstrates how queering can unsettle the constitutive gender and sexuality of organizing to promising effect. This is a must-read companion for any treatment of power in contemporary organizational life, and especially for courses addressed to critical management studies or other radical theories of work and organization.

Karen Lee Ashcraft, Professor, Department of Communicationm, University of Colorado Boulder, USA