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Dear GDO-members,
Please distribute this call for papers widely,
Best wishes,
Yvonne Benschop
Call for papers
Special issue Of Gender, Work & Organizationon
Gendering Change: The Next Step
Guest editors:
Yvonne Benschop (Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Albert Mills (St Mary's University, Halifax, Canada)
Jean Helms Mills (St Mary's University, Halifax, Canada)
Janne Tienari (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland)
Under pressures from intensifying competition, decision-makers today turn organizations around, merge them or acquire new ones, often across national boundaries. Nonetheless , changing established ways of organization and interaction is always painful in contexts where gender is rarely considered. Established gender relations in different national and local contexts are subject to processes of globalization and transnationalism (Acker, 2006; Calás and Smircich, 2006). The gendered forms and outcomes of these processes need to be mapped out and challenged. At the same time, however, analyses of global processes must be nuanced with attention to local specificities as globalized capitalism takes various forms in different nation-states and local settings. Thus, while numerous occupations are open to women, and some women have risen to the top echelons, the overrepresentation of women among the lowest paid, lowest grade workers continues at all times and in all places. Overall, established gendered power relations in societies and organizations have been maintained, and there is evidence that in the era of globalization and transnationalism the position of women has deteriorated rather than improved (Mohanty, 2004). This calls for reflection on the dynamics of gender inequality in constantly changing organizational worlds.
This special issue invites work from multiple disciplinary backgrounds and different parts of the world concerning a range of timely topics, including, but not restricted to, the following:
- Gendered discourses of change
- Gender, change and resistance
- Gender, change and identity
- Questioning 'change' from feminist perspectives
- Feminist interventions
- Gender, race, class and change
- Intersectionalities and change
- Transnational feminism and change
- Transnational organizations, gender and change
- Gender, mergers and acquisitions
Full papers (not under review elsewhere) using Gender, Work and Organization guidelines for authors, should be sent by 31 May 2009 via Manuscript Central (http://mc.manucsrciptcentral.com/gwo) or to the special issue editors: Yvonne Benschop (Y.Benschop@fm.ru.nl), Albert Mills (a.mills@smu.ca), Jean Helms Mills (jean.mills@smu.ca) and Janne Tienari (Janne.Tienari@hse.fi).