Sexualities and accounting: A queer theory perspective

Accounting as gendering and gendered: A review of 25 years of critical accounting research on gender

“…Although, as we have seen in this paper, gender encapsulates a range of behaviours, identities, masculinities and femininities in accounting, the issue of sex and sexuality is rarely addressed in relation to these, and where it is, it tends to be from a heterosexual perspective (Burrell, 1987, Rumens, 2015. Male heterosexual sexual cultures and female heterosexual countercultures, imbued with sexual symbolism derived from artefacts, images, language, behaviours and spaces, can entwine gendered power and domination, practice and resistance, in complex cultural codes and behaviours within accounting (Haynes, 2013b).…”

“…Male heterosexual sexual cultures and female heterosexual countercultures, imbued with sexual symbolism derived from artefacts, images, language, behaviours and spaces, can entwine gendered power and domination, practice and resistance, in complex cultural codes and behaviours within accounting (Haynes, 2013b). Rumens (2015) laments the paucity of research on sexuality within accounting studies in general, and the lack of recognition of and research on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) sexualities in particular. He offers a powerful argument for the use of queer theory to encourage new research into LGBT sexualities, laying down an explicit exhortation to critical accounting scholars to address a series of questions in future research to disrupt heteronormativity, address the queering of accounting organisations and go beyond a binary construction of sexuality (Rumens, 2015).…”

“…Rumens (2015) laments the paucity of research on sexuality within accounting studies in general, and the lack of recognition of and research on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) sexualities in particular. He offers a powerful argument for the use of queer theory to encourage new research into LGBT sexualities, laying down an explicit exhortation to critical accounting scholars to address a series of questions in future research to disrupt heteronormativity, address the queering of accounting organisations and go beyond a binary construction of sexuality (Rumens, 2015). Such a challenge reflects a wider need to address and articulate more inclusive identities in the professional accounting context.…”

“…While we have seen recent calls for further work on exploring gendered cultural diversity in accounting (Komori, 2015), for widening gendered conceptualisations of accounting academia (Young, 2015) and for addressing LGBT sexualities in accounting (Rumens, 2015), there are other critical areas which have not been addressed in accounting literature. One such is sexual and gendered violence which can be addressed at the above three levels.…”

The organisation of sexuality and the sexuality of organisation: A genealogical analysis of sexual ‘inclusive exclusion’ at work

“…Recent applications of queer theory to management and organisation studies have been an important development in interrogating heteronormativity (see, for example, Bendl et al, 2009;Parker, 2002Parker, , 2016Rumens, 2013Rumens, , 2016 and in contributing to better understand what are considered inclusive workplaces for LGBTQ workers. However, the notion of inclusion, and the different permutations within the continuum inclusion-exclusion, still remains under-explored.…”