Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Angus, Lawrence B.

Titel

Masculinity and Women Teachers at Christian Brothers College

Ist Teil von

• Organization studies, 1993-01, Vol.14 (2), p.235-260

Ort / Verlag

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Quelle

BSC - Ebsco (Business Source Ultimate)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper I attempt to fill partially a gap identified by Mills (1988) who claims that, despite the emergence of a strong body of literature on organizational culture, gender has remained 'at best' a marginal theme in this literature. Draw ing upon notions of agency and structure, I report a case study of aspects of the construction of masculine subjectivities in a Catholic boys' school, and of the encounter of women teachers with its organizational culture. Such a focus is particularly revealing of the institution's gender regime. I examine gender as an aspect of background rules and hegemonic culture as they are mediated within the institutional context of the school. Finally, I consider the responses of the women to their encounter with the institution in terms of feminist possibilities for organizational reform.