Home and ‘Work’

Hearn, Jeff; Pringle, Keith; Nordberg, Marie; Šmídová, Iva; Müller, Ursula; Oleksy, Elzbieta H.; Lattu, Emmi; Tallberg, Teemu; Ferguson, Harry; Kolga, Voldemar; Novikova, Irina

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“…Rather this may involve views such as that a man who uses violence against his wife is not in command. Condemnation of violence might sometimes be ways to revalorize other or dominant forms of men/masculinity, such as the ‘superiority’ of non-violent or less obviously violent men/masculinity (Hearn et al ., 2006).…”

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A Multi-Faceted Power Analysis of Men's Violence to Known Women: From Hegemonic Masculinity to the Hegemony of Men

Hearn

2012

The Sociological Review

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A Multi-Faceted Power Analysis of Men's Violence to Known Women: From Hegemonic Masculinity to the Hegemony of Men

Hearn

2012

The Sociological Review

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“…Firstly, promoters renegotiate availability and the recognition of fathers' parental roles but keep them aligned with organizations' interests. Challenging the availability demands of “greedy organizations” (Hearn et al., 2006; Kvande, 2009) comes with emphasizing the mutual benefits that come with organizational acceptance of fathers' care needs. The postfeminist connection of gender‐change projects with neo‐liberal discourses (Gill, 2007) becomes evident here.…”

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“…It rests on the assumption that committed employees always prioritize work, are unrestrictedly available for their employer, and have no care responsibilities or career interruptions. Availability demands even intensify in the context of neoliberalism and current knowledge work organizations, which become more and more “time hungry” (Hearn et al., 2006), “greedy”, and create boundless time cultures (Kvande, 2009). At the root of this traditional career norm is the ideological assumption (Martin, 1990, p. 343) of a clear separation between work and the private sphere.…”

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New fathers, ideal workers? New players in the field of father‐friendly work organizations

Balan

Brink

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores novel forms of proactive support for fathers in organizations and analyzes how newly instituted organizational promoters of father-friendliness in Germany (organizational consultants, fathers' representatives, and fathers' networks) legitimize and strengthen organizational acceptance of fathers' use of family-friendly workplace arrangements. Bringing together the notions of organizational masculinity, the ideal worker norm, and postfeminism, the paper focuses on caring formations of postfeminist masculinity at work and how they contribute to gender change in organizations. The analysis shows that organizational promoters construct father-friendliness in three ways (I) by constructing a new, "caring" organizational masculinity, (II) by creating organizational value for care-related practices, (III) by framing father-friendliness as a prerequisite for gender equality. Our theoretical argument is that configurations of positive masculinities are possible within a postfeminist culture, and they produce incremental yet limited gender change through a reshaped organizational masculinity and a reframed "ideal worker" within organizations. The study of a rather unique group of change agents in organizations shows how additional offerings for fathers might contribute to changing gendered assumptions about care in organizations.

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Connecting art, maintenance, and motherhood: How Ukeles's maintenance art shapes understandings of maintenance

Gulari,

Dziuba,

Huopalainen

2024

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper proposes an alternative feminist understanding of maintenance by investigating the artistic practices and lived experiences of feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles (b. 1939). Our main theoretical and empirical focus lies on maintenance, and we show how art and motherhood as productive connection points proffer different ways of perceiving, understanding, and practicing maintenance. By contextualizing our case within the historical backdrop of New York between the late 1960s and 1980s, we demonstrate how Ukeles's maintenance art proposes novel ways of perceiving the value of maintenance, from the maintenance performed by mothers to considerations of the broader societal implications of maintenance. Such alternative political understanding aligns with critiques of postfeminist societal discourse. We contend that Ukeles's art inspires a political shift in our thinking about maintenance, where maintenance is valued not solely for its indispensable and utilitarian attributes but also it's relational, emotional, and embodied qualities. This nuanced understanding requests visibility for maintenance and foregrounds “more‐than‐I,” agency, and continuity of life, thereby acknowledging the inherent value of the political dimensions of maintenance.

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Home and ‘Work’

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A Multi-Faceted Power Analysis of Men's Violence to Known Women: From Hegemonic Masculinity to the Hegemony of Men

A Multi-Faceted Power Analysis of Men's Violence to Known Women: From Hegemonic Masculinity to the Hegemony of Men

New fathers, ideal workers? New players in the field of father‐friendly work organizations

Connecting art, maintenance, and motherhood: How Ukeles's maintenance art shapes understandings of maintenance

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