Caught in a Bad Romance? Affective Attachments in Contemporary Academia

Mannevuo, Mona

doi:10.1057/9781137495549_4

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“…In so doing, it contributes to the developing body of scholarship on postfeminism within the gender and entrepreneurship field, by demonstrating how the mumpreneur is a hybrid entrepreneurial identity constituted by discourses of masculine entrepreneurship that (re)produce a gendered hierarchy of entrepreneurial feminine identities. Crucially, postfeminist discourses circulate the seductive appeal of entrepreneurship and motherhood as compatible activities, interpellating women to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions without limits, while also responding to the call to active motherhood (Manneuvo, 2016;Thornton, 2011). Accordingly, from a postfeminist perspective, we conceptualise the mumpreneur as a hybrid entrepreneurial femininity, which brings discursively coded masculine (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship

Lewis

Rumens

Simpson

2021

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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Mobilising postfeminism as an analytical device, this article re-examines how women business owners discursively engage with the identity of the mumpreneur. Drawing on interviews with women business owners, this article reconceptualises the compatibility between motherhood and entrepreneurship associated with the mumpreneur, in terms of a hybrid identity that interlinks feminine and masculine behaviours connected to home and work. Study data reveal the discursive practices present in interview accounts – choosing family and work, strategic mumpreneurship and enhancing the business without limits – which draw on postfeminist discourses to constitute hybrid entrepreneurial femininities associated with the mumpreneur category. The article contributes to the gender and entrepreneurship literature, in particular, the scholarship on mumpreneurship, by first, showing how engagement with the mumpreneur identity is implicated in the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship; second, demonstrates how encounters with the mumpreneur contribute to the creation of a hierarchy of entrepreneurial identities which reinforces the masculine norm; and third considers how the mumpreneur as a hybrid identity mobilises entrepreneurship in children in gendered ways. While the emergence of the mumpreneur as a contemporary entrepreneurial identity has positively impacted how women’s entrepreneurship is viewed, the study demonstrates that it has not disrupted dominant discourses of masculine entrepreneurship or gendered power relations in the entrepreneurial field.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship

Lewis

Rumens

Simpson

2021

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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“…Investment in oneself, driven by neoliberal ideology, encompasses the whole of people's lives in academic work, which remains markedly gendered (Adkins & Dever, ; Adkins & Jokinen, ; Gill, ; Katila & Meriläinen, , ; Lund & Tienari, ; Mannevuo, ; Parsons & Priola, ; Van den Brink & Benschop, ). Gendered practices are reproduced (and disrupted) in the lives of academics, which are characterized by ambiguity and contradictions.…”

Section: Changing Universities Academic Work and Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Investment in oneself, driven by neoliberal ideology, encompasses the whole of people's lives in academic work, which remains markedly gendered (Adkins & Dever, 2016;Adkins & Jokinen, 2008;Gill, 2009;Katila & Meriläinen, 1999, 2002Lund & Tienari, 2019;Mannevuo, 2016;Parsons & Priola, 2013;Van den Brink & Benschop, 2013).…”

Section: Changing Universities Academic Work and Gendermentioning

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New masculinities in universities? Discourses, ambivalence and potential change

Lund

Meriläinen

Tienari

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article, we explore forms and possible implications of new masculinities in universities, and elucidate how they relate to hegemonic masculinity. ‘New masculinities’ coins a particular tradition of naming in Nordic masculinity studies. In the Nordic context, gendered social relations are shaped by State policies and equality discourses, which are increasingly embracing father‐friendly initiatives. New masculinities refers to the increased involvement of men in caring practices and especially in fathering. Our empirical study comprises in‐depth interviews with young male academics in a Finnish business school. We elucidate, first, the ambivalence and struggles between masculinities in the discourses of these men and, second, how the construction of masculinities is specific to societal, sociocultural and local contexts. Relations of class, and middle‐class notions of the ‘good life’ in particular, emerge as central for understanding the experiences of these men. Beyond the Nordic countries, we argue that while the change potential of caring masculinity stems from particular contexts, the concept of new masculinities is helpful in capturing the ambivalence and struggles between hegemonic and caring masculinities rather than dismissing the latter as subordinate to the former.

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“…Workloads are so heavy and expectations of productivity so high, she argues, that they can only be achieved by workers who have no relationships or responsibilities that might constrain their productive capacities. A growing body of work examines the difficulties of mothering whilst working as an academic (Meyers 2012;Mannevuo 2016), and a mushrooming self-help field and blogosphere gives advice on how to ensure that one's children do not Bshow^academically-one of Mona Mannevuo's (2016) interviewees memorably suggests that her maternity leave Blooks like a criminal record on the CV.^As Maria do Mar Pereira (2016) argues, not just parenting but also activism can be affected by thissqueezed out by the proliferating demands made of academics. She quotes Lauren Berlant saying that, Bto have a life at all^in these circumstances increasingly seems like an accomplishment.…”

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“…Andrew Ross calls this Bsacrificial labour^-underpaid and exploited because the reward is supposed to be intrinsic-we are Bcalled to our art^or our intellectual work. I have discussed this previously (Gill 2010) drawing on Lauren Berlant's (2011) notion of Bcruel optimism.^Mona Mannevuo (2016) expresses it beautifully when she says, Bcontemporary academic capitalism works through affects and languages of love, flexibility, and productivity.^She talks about us being Bcaught in a bad romance'^with academia-it is not just like a difficult relationship, it is a bad relationship, and one profoundly marked by gender, considering the associations of unpaid labours of love with women. How do we resist this?…”

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confidence: 99%

What Would Les Back Do? If Generosity Could Save Us

Gill

2017

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Caught in a Bad Romance? Affective Attachments in Contemporary Academia

Cited by 13 publications

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Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship

Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship

New masculinities in universities? Discourses, ambivalence and potential change

What Would Les Back Do? If Generosity Could Save Us

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