Deborah Kerfoot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1176412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Kerfoot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerfoot |
| SIGNATURE | KERFOOT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Remembering Joan Acker through friendship, sociological thought and activism
Editorial piece for the Gender, Work & Organization Special Issue: Professor Joan Acker 1924‐2016
The gendered terrains of paternalism
Gay men at work
This article is a study of professional identity work, using in-depth interview material from research conducted into the work lives of 10 gay men employed in a UK National Health Service Trust. Using the men's portraits of professional life, we examine the different ways they understand what it means to be a `professional'. The article suggests that while gay men appear to be empowered by forms of agency to self-identify as professionals in `gay…
Gender and Service
Between Representations and Subjectivity
The distinction between male and female and masculinity and femininity continues to polarize relations between the sexes in ways that generally subordinate, marginalize, or undermine women with respect to men. The gender literature has recently challenged the singular and unitary conception of gender identity, arguing that there are a multiplicity of masculinities and femininities that are often fragile, fragmented and fluid. Despite this, the bi…
Managing Masculinity in Contemporary Organizational Life
This paper seeks to theorize managerial discourses and practices in terms of their effects upon sexuality, intimacy and power in organizations. While accepting the real and immediate gendered material and social inequalities that are reinforced by the recent resurgence of unadulterated `free market' capitalism, the authors focus here on certain limited aspects of femininity and masculinity that are important for an understanding of gender identit…
Making Sense of "Quality?"-Toward a Review and Critique of Quality Initiatives in Financial Services
This article provides a broad classification and critique of the theoretical and empirical approaches toward quality initiatives. These are the "technical" managerialist, social managerialist, and critical nonmanagerialist approaches. The technical managerialist approach is based upon the flawed assumption that practice follows policy almost like night follows day. By contrast, focusing on intraorganizational politics and the tensions of hierarch…
Boys Own' Stuff
The connections between men, masculinity and management remain understated if not largely concealed, despite a critical spotlight being increasingly cast on masculinity by many academic and other writers. In a similar vein, numerous commentators on organisation have charted the rise of new organisational forms and structures, and the management practices which flow from them. With few notable exceptions, however these bodies of work deny or downp…
‘The Best is Yet to Come?’
Gay men at work
This article is a study of professional identity work, using in-depth interview material from research conducted into the work lives of 10 gay men employed in a UK National Health Service Trust. Using the men's portraits of professional life, we examine the different ways they understand what it means to be a `professional'. The article suggests that while gay men appear to be empowered by forms of agency to self-identify as professionals in `gay…
Between Representations and Subjectivity
The distinction between male and female and masculinity and femininity continues to polarize relations between the sexes in ways that generally subordinate, marginalize, or undermine women with respect to men. The gender literature has recently challenged the singular and unitary conception of gender identity, arguing that there are a multiplicity of masculinities and femininities that are often fragile, fragmented and fluid. Despite this, the bi…
Gender and Service
Boys Own' Stuff
The connections between men, masculinity and management remain understated if not largely concealed, despite a critical spotlight being increasingly cast on masculinity by many academic and other writers. In a similar vein, numerous commentators on organisation have charted the rise of new organisational forms and structures, and the management practices which flow from them. With few notable exceptions, however these bodies of work deny or downp…
Remembering Joan Acker through friendship, sociological thought and activism
Editorial piece for the Gender, Work & Organization Special Issue: Professor Joan Acker 1924‐2016
‘The Best is Yet to Come?’
Managing Masculinity in Contemporary Organizational Life
This paper seeks to theorize managerial discourses and practices in terms of their effects upon sexuality, intimacy and power in organizations. While accepting the real and immediate gendered material and social inequalities that are reinforced by the recent resurgence of unadulterated `free market' capitalism, the authors focus here on certain limited aspects of femininity and masculinity that are important for an understanding of gender identit…
Making Sense of "Quality?"-Toward a Review and Critique of Quality Initiatives in Financial Services
This article provides a broad classification and critique of the theoretical and empirical approaches toward quality initiatives. These are the "technical" managerialist, social managerialist, and critical nonmanagerialist approaches. The technical managerialist approach is based upon the flawed assumption that practice follows policy almost like night follows day. By contrast, focusing on intraorganizational politics and the tensions of hierarch…
Boys Own' Stuff
The connections between men, masculinity and management remain understated if not largely concealed, despite a critical spotlight being increasingly cast on masculinity by many academic and other writers. In a similar vein, numerous commentators on organisation have charted the rise of new organisational forms and structures, and the management practices which flow from them. With few notable exceptions, however these bodies of work deny or downp…
Between Representations and Subjectivity
The distinction between male and female and masculinity and femininity continues to polarize relations between the sexes in ways that generally subordinate, marginalize, or undermine women with respect to men. The gender literature has recently challenged the singular and unitary conception of gender identity, arguing that there are a multiplicity of masculinities and femininities that are often fragile, fragmented and fluid. Despite this, the bi…
Gender and Service
Gay men at work
This article is a study of professional identity work, using in-depth interview material from research conducted into the work lives of 10 gay men employed in a UK National Health Service Trust. Using the men's portraits of professional life, we examine the different ways they understand what it means to be a `professional'. The article suggests that while gay men appear to be empowered by forms of agency to self-identify as professionals in `gay…
The gendered terrains of paternalism
Remembering Joan Acker through friendship, sociological thought and activism
Editorial piece for the Gender, Work & Organization Special Issue: Professor Joan Acker 1924‐2016
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 works) · Masculinity (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)