Why are women, despite being resilient, adaptable, and persistent,
often constructed and perceived as weak and vulnerable? Women’s
vulnerability is not a neutral concept but is organizationally defined
and understood. Organizations are discursive spaces where women’s
vulnerability is constructed and reproduced as a communicative act and
event. We often represent vulnerability at individual or
organizational levels, but not both. Women’s vulnerability reminds
us of the pervasive interconnectedness of personal and organizational
life events. Experiencing women’s organizational vulnerability is
common. However, is women’s vulnerability publicly represented,
defined, felt and acted upon in the same way everywhere? This book is
focused on comparing women’s organizational vulnerability practices
making a significant contribution to reflection, theory, methods and
cross-disciplinary expertise. The process of making sense of
“vulnerability” is extremely diverse and intersectionally
constructed through gender, culture and organizational discourses,
which demands complex, innovative and non-Eurocentric methodological
paradigms and approaches. This book satisfies these demands by
integrating contributions from a diverse range of disciplines,
academic traditions and cases and provides an understanding of
women’s vulnerability as a global phenomenon that comprises both
cultural and organizational contexts. By examining how publicly and
organizationally women develop particular and creative strategies to
navigate vulnerability, the book significantly contributes towards
identifying archetypical practices for negotiating vulnerability in
different contexts.
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Global Archetypes
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ISBN
9781040325773
Publisert
2024
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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