Jo Brewis

Biographic Data

ID3591383
NAMEJo Brewis
GIVEN NAMESJo
FAMILY NAMEBrewis
SIGNATUREBREWIS J
AFFILIATIONSThe Open University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • “How did I cope with that for so long every day, all day? ” Disruption, misrecognition, and menopause at work

    Open AccessJoanna Brewis, Jo Brewis et al.ARTICLEOrganization2026

    This paper uses Leder’s work on dys-appearance to explore qualitative data from interviews with 50 menopausal cis women working in the UK and the Netherlands. We focus on the viscerality of menopausal experiences, how these disrupt women’s working lives and how they respond accordingly. We propose a threefold framework of misrecognition on this basis, inspired by Leder. We suggest our respondents misrecognize their working menopausal bodies becau…

  • The 7th decade manager

    Graham Frobisher, Deborah Price et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research in…2024References: 6

    Purpose The 7th decade manager (7DM) is an overlooked and under-researched group in organisation studies. This paper explores the changes which 7DMs experience in later life through the lenses of age, work and identity. Design/methodology/approach An interpretivist methodology was adopted and data were obtained via semi-structured interviews with 32 managers across 10 different sectors in England and Scotland. These data were analysed thematicall…

  • Women’s experiences of menopause at work and performance management

    Open AccessVanessa Beck, Jo Brewis et al.ARTICLEOrganization2021

    Presenting findings from our global evidence review of menopause transition and economic participation emboldened us to establish a menopause policy at the university where we all worked at the time. Our report was published in July 2017 and the policy was in place by November that year. Our critical reflection on this activism focuses on issues that are not commonly recognized around such interventions, and which we ourselves have only been able…

  • Rolling with the punches

    Jo BrewisARTICLECulture and Organization2020Cited by: 1References: 27

    Although Collier’s [2002. “The Changing University and the (Legal) Academic Career – Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Men and the Private Life of the Law School.” Legal Studies 22: 1–32] ‘emotional economy’ of academia is well travelled in management and organization studies research, this literature is predominantly informed by Hochschild’s [1983. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: Univ…

  • Carne – flesh and organization

    Ilaria Boncori, Jo Brewis et al.ARTICLECulture and Organization2019References: 4

    The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above

  • The post-re/productive

    Open AccessVanessa Beck, Jo Brewis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Organizational…2018Cited by: 2References: 30

    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of these experiences on the authors' work and on the authors. Design/methodology/approach Following the publication of the report, the authors undertook collective, autoethnographic memory work that forms the empirical body of the argument. This is presented in 13 vignettes. Findings The authors found themselves continually traversing. Research limitations/implications The paper analyses…

  • Gender, the Body and Organization Studies

    Open AccessEloisio Moulin De Souza, Jo Brewis et al.ARTICLEGender Work and Organization2016Cited by: 18References: 8

    Even in organization studies scholarship that treats gender as performative and fluid, a certain 'crystallization' of gender identities as somehow unproblematic and stable may occur because of our methodological decision-making, and especially our categorization of participants. Mobilizing queer theory - and Judith Butler's work on the heterosexual matrix and performativity in particular - as a conceptual lens, we examine this crystallization, su…

  • The private military industry and neoliberal imperialism

    Open AccessRichard Godfrey, R C Godfrey et al.ARTICLEOrganization2014

    Despite the international reach, and increasing global importance, of the free market provision of military and security services—which we label the Private Security Industry (PSI)—management and organization studies has yet to pay significant attention to this industry. Taking up Grey’s (2009) call for scholarship at the boundaries between security studies and organization studies and building on Banerjee’s (2008) treatment of the PSI as a key e…

  • Recovery and organization

    Jo Brewis, Mustafa F Özbilgin et al.ARTICLECulture and Organization2012