Who's Who and Where's Where: Constructing Feminist Literary Studies

A feminist poststructuralist critique of talent management: Toward a more gender sensitive body of knowledge

“…These latent meanings create and sustain gender work/social hierarchies and legitimize forms of subordination and domination. This linguistic framing (Eagleton, 1996;Fondas, 1997) permits the TM imaginary to become embedded and institutionalized within the collective culture which, as we have demonstrated, is constructed within masculinist discourses. The way in which TM is conceptualized equates talent and organizational performance with maleness; these two things are not synonymous.…”

“…We adopted textual analysis as our analysis method in order to unravel the implicit gendering dynamics of the TM rhetoric as well as to develop a deeper understanding of which concepts War for Talent invoked (Kelan, 2008). The power of textual analysis lies in exploring the role of language, symbols, textual representations, and their meanings (Eagleton, 1996) and has proven useful for organizational theorists who are interested in reading practices as texts since it sees language as a central vehicle through which organizational actors construct their social realities. Furthermore, textual analysis helps unravel not only what is being said but also what is being silenced (Eagleton, 1996) while taking into account the historical context.…”

“…The power of textual analysis lies in exploring the role of language, symbols, textual representations, and their meanings (Eagleton, 1996) and has proven useful for organizational theorists who are interested in reading practices as texts since it sees language as a central vehicle through which organizational actors construct their social realities. Furthermore, textual analysis helps unravel not only what is being said but also what is being silenced (Eagleton, 1996) while taking into account the historical context. It is very useful in identifying whose voices are presented and how these voices have shaped gendered power relations.…”

“…Michaels et al (2001, xxiii), claim that their ''research focuses on exclusively executive and managerial talent.'' The writing style of the text reflects ''literary journalism'' (Eagleton, 1996) which aims to denote the ''spectacular'' and ''powerful'' in language formation. It is this linguistic tactic used throughout WFT that builds urgency, excitement and momentum around TM and that helps to reinforce TM's universalizing language and logics.…”

Critical Race Structuralism: The Role of Science Education in Teaching Social Justice Issues in Urban Education and Pre-Service Teacher Education Programs

“…Brown, 2019;Hall, 1985;Lemert, 2014Lemert, /2016. This dominant culture indoctrination assigns meaning to images and determines their relationship to other images (Eagleton, 1996). In this sense, Black can be conjured as violent or evil, and White as good and purity.…”