M[othering] View on: “The Construction of Gender: Some Insights from Feminist Psychology”

Abstract

The claim that gender is an authority relationship is an advance on the widely held view that psychologically at least gender is an attribute, part of someone′s character. However because this claim is counter intuitive the case for it must be carefully made. One way this may be accomplished is through a feminist reconstruction of organization theory. Through inspections of the historical origins of bureaucracy and the history of its interpretation we may find that it is not efficiency which pervades, marginalizing women facing other claims on their time. Instead it may be the requirements of gendered social power of which organizations are but one arena.

Field, capital and habitus: An oral history of women in accounting in Australia during World War II

“…However, Wharton (1991, p.386) asserts that while gender may be an organizing principle of social life, in itself it reveals little about the experiences or identities inscribed within relations. Ciancanelli (1992, p.133) agrees and suggests that attention should be paid to the interplay between the individual and broader social structures, social memories and socialized needs. Oral history helps to address those claims (Hammond & Sikka, 1996).…”

“…Second, unlike prior studies on women accountants in WWII, we examine the experiences of the women interviewed for our study in the context of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s (1990) theory of practice. 4 The extant historiography of women in accounting employs gender as the basis of examining women’s experiences in accounting (Ciancanelli, 1992; Welsh, 1992; Broadbent & Kirkham, 2008). However, Wharton (1991, p.386) asserts that while gender may be an organizing principle of social life, in itself it reveals little about the experiences or identities inscribed within relations.…”

Gender (in) accounting: insights, gaps and an agenda for future research

“…Women can fulfil blue-collar roles as we relearnt when women performed factory work during the Second World War. As Ciancanelli (1992) points out, social roles in organisations (and society) do not derive from biological differences but from social constructions.…”

Unshackling Accounting in Prisons: Race, Gender, and Class

“…A primary means of devaluing human life is creating categories of undesirable characteristics, based on class, race, and gender (Ciancanelli, 1992;Collins, 2009;Haraway, 1989;Jaggar, 2002;Kirkham & Loft, 2001;Lehman, 2012;Spivak, 1996;Strier, 2010;Tanima, 2015;Waring, 1988). The normalized dehumanization of those in the criminal justice system becomes so ingrained that questions of oppression are made invisible.…”