1st Edition
Women, Organizations and Vulnerability Global Archetypes
Why are women, despite being resilient, adaptable, and persistent, often constructed and perceived as weak and vulnerable? Women’s vulnerability is not a neutral concept but is organizationally defined and understood. Organizations are discursive spaces where women’s vulnerability is constructed and reproduced as a communicative act and event. We often represent vulnerability at individual or organizational levels, but not both. Women’s vulnerability reminds us of the pervasive interconnectedness of personal and organizational life events. Experiencing women’s organizational vulnerability is common. However, is women’s vulnerability publicly represented, defined, felt and acted upon in the same way everywhere?
This book is focused on comparing women’s organizational vulnerability practices making a significant contribution to reflection, theory, methods and cross-disciplinary expertise. The process of making sense of “vulnerability” is extremely diverse and intersectionally constructed through gender, culture and organizational discourses, which demands complex, innovative and non-Eurocentric methodological paradigms and approaches. This book satisfies these demands by integrating contributions from a diverse range of disciplines, academic traditions and cases and provides an understanding of women’s vulnerability as a global phenomenon that comprises both cultural and organizational contexts.
By examining how publicly and organizationally women develop particular and creative strategies to navigate vulnerability, the book significantly contributes towards identifying archetypical practices for negotiating vulnerability in different contexts.
Introduction
Part 1: Conceptualizing Organizational Practices of Making Women Vulnerable
1. Scrutinizing the Archetypical Relation Between Vulnerability, Organizing and Women
Hugo Gaggiotti and Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión
2. Women, Ageing & Wellbeing at Work: Exploring Vulnerabilities Across the Life Course
Clare Ellen Edge and Hilary Lowe
3. “Before We Open Our Mouths, Society Has Labelled Us”: Double-Jeopardy and the Identity of Black, Female Trailblazers
Georgia Buchanan-Robinson, Carol Jarvis and Jenna Pandeli
4. From Vulnerabilities to Empowerment? Women's Voices, Action Research and the Creation of a Global Mentoring Platform
Ana Lopes, Susan Durbin and Stella Warren
5. Navigating Vulnerability and Resilience: Pregnant Women's Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chloe Tarrabain, Jenna Pandeli and Mahwish Khan
6. Transforming Voices: Exploring Women, Vulnerability and Organizations through Experimental Audio-visual Ethnography
Miguel Gaggiotti
Part 2: Country Based Cases of Organizing, Vulnerability and Women
7. The Reality “Checked”. Between Empowerment and Vulnerability in Poland
Joanna Średnicka
8. Is the Gender Violence Alert Mechanism (GVAm) Enough to Prevent Women's Vulnerability in México?
Rosío Córdova Plaza
9. Women's Economic Empowerment in the Maldives: Are We There Yet?
Aishath Nasheeda, Abdulla Nafiz and Ahsan Ahmed Jaleel
10. Gender Violence, Performance, and Quitting Intention in Mexican’s Borderlands. Analysis in the Agricultural and Maquiladora Industry
Virginia Guadalupe López Torres
11. The Gendered Nature of Vulnerability in Higher Education: the Case of Türkiye
Ela Burcu Uçel, Cansu Yıldırım, Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu and Benan Kurt Yılmaz
12. Approaches to the Vulnerabilities of Women Academics Responsible for Research in a Mexican Public University
Elvia Espinosa Infante and Nancy Fabiola Martínez Cervantes
13. Motherhood and Executive Roles: Intersectional Vulnerability in Peruvian Companies
Karen Genna
14. “A Case of ‘Sort it Yourself’”. French Women's Vulnerable Journey to Solo Motherhood
Alexandra Desy and Diana Marre
15. Vulnerability and Autonomy: At-Home Insemination and the Reproductive Rights of Lesbian Women in Brazil
Anna Paula Uziel and Roberta Gomes Nunes
16. Women's Vulnerability Behind the Scenes of British Film and Television
Theresa Trimmel
17. Vulnerability in the Polish Streets: Gender and Archetypes in Street Performances
Marta Połeć
Coda: Negotiating Selves: Gender at Work
Barbara Czarniawska
Biography
Hugo Gaggiotti is a professor in the College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England, UK.
Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión is a tenure professor in the Facultad de Turismo y Mercadotecnia at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico.
