Revealing and Concealing Gender: Issues of Visibility in Organizations

摘要

This book arrived for reviewing just a few days after a conversation with a friend about her daughter's struggle to identify a personal example of a "gendered" experience, to write about for a university assignment on workplace communication. This discussion had prompted me to reflect on how the young female students I come across tend to be unwilling to engage with, or perhaps not fully alert to, a gender lens on their own life experience - as if "gendering" takes place only in books, or as if, in Lewis's (2006) phrasing (cited in this collection), the "problem" of "gender disadvantage" has been solved. A book whose back cover promised to explore "new terrain for understanding the ways in which gender is revealed and concealed in organizations" was therefore a particularly timely arrival onto my desk.