3 Soziale Agency: Arbeit an der (De-)Institutionalisierung von Geschlecht

Amstutz, Nathalie; Nussbaumer, Melanie; Brand, Ortrun

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“…Our interest in the concept of the logic of appropriateness lies in its focus on normativity and its capacity to address the maintenance of power relations in gender equality discourses. By contrast, the idea of taken-for-granted routines (Scott, 1995(Scott, , 2014 largely omits this aspect since it assumes that normativity remains unquestioned and that organizational actors are mainly unaware of power relations (see also Amstutz, Nussbaumer, & Brand, 2018;Powell et al, 2018;Styhre, 2014). We therefore see a critical potential in reconsidering the decisive role of the logic of appropriateness in organizational gender analysis.…”

Section: The Logic Of Appropriateness: Heteronormativity As Consolimentioning

confidence: 99%

Disciplined discourses: The logic of appropriateness in discourses on organizational gender equality policies

Amstutz

Nussbaumer

Vöhringer

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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Organizational gender equality policies must address critical issues in organizations, as well as challenge hierarchies and the unequal distribution of power and resources. At the same time, they are reliant on acceptance by organizations when developing an official course of action. On the basis of a neo‐institutional perspective, this study investigates how gender equality discourses are disciplined so that they fit organizational expectations by maintaining the rationality myth of the organization. The empirical analysis of four Swiss organizations demonstrates that, although they intend to reduce gender inequalities, their gender equality policies are shaped by a logic of appropriateness that leads to a continuous reproduction of heteronormativity within gender equality policies. This study thus contributes to the understanding of how the logic of appropriateness protects the heteronormative matrix in organizations by disciplining gender equality discourses.

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Section: The Logic Of Appropriateness: Heteronormativity As Consolimentioning

confidence: 99%