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Doing Gender unto the Other: Fiction as a Mode of Studying Gender Discrimination in Organizations
Author(s) -
Czarniawska Barbara
Publication year - 2006
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.1468-0432.2006.00306.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , action (physics) , element (criminal law) , task (project management) , social psychology , sociology , psychology , public relations , political science , computer science , management , law , artificial intelligence , economics , physics , quantum mechanics
Although ‘doing gender’ has been recently defined as an accomplishment, an element of social practice, this understanding of the concept needs to be extended to coercive action such as subtle workplace discrimination. Even though great effort has been invested in revealing the dynamic of such social practices, the researcher's task is not easy for a variety of reasons. This type of study is difficult to conduct by following traditional research design and many alternative approaches have been tried. This article presents the possibility of using fiction as one possible and relatively unexploited venue of research.