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Gender and Bureaucracies —A Critique of Ferguson's ‘The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy’
Author(s) -
Billing Yvonne Due
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0432.1994.tb00017.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , feminism , salient , affect (linguistics) , gender studies , sociology , feminist theory , political science , positive economics , law , politics , economics , communication
Within the area of gender and organization studies there is a tendency to generalize about organizations and how they affect people working in them. In feminist analysis, salient in Kathy Ferguson's ‘The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy’, there is a tendency to have a one‐sided view on bureaucracies and to regard these merely as products of ‘maleness’ and as incompatible with (radical) feminism. On the basis of a case‐study of three different bureaucracies, this article questions the assumption of incompatibility and argues for a more nuanced assessment of gender and bureaucracies.