Performing Gender at Work
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:16th Jul '09
Should be back in stock very soon
Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations.
"A strongly motivated, compelling piece of research, Elisabeth Kelan challenges us to think about the ways in which the evolving economy shapes new gender inequities. Her eye popping investigation into how gender progress lags as technology expands is a must read." - Sylvia Ann Hewlett, President, Center for Work Life Policy
ISBN: 9780230577817
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 460g
253 pages