Exploring the Experiences of Women Social Entrepreneurs

Advancing Understandings of 'Emotional Capital' in Women-only Networks

Bibliographic Data

ID3946705
AuthorsGarth Stahl (0000-0003-1452-983X), Garth D Stahl (0000-0002-1800-8495), Pamela Burnard (0000-0002-8997-0171), Sarah Mcdonald (0000-0002-0454-4983)
Year2023
Volume134
Issue1
Pages86-103
Publication date2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01417789231166417
OpenAlexW4383907514
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited47

The field of social entrepreneurship, a domain focused on implementing solutions to social, cultural and environmental issues, remains highly male-dominated. Research continues to emphasise that women social entrepreneurs are often expected to behave in masculine ways in order to become successful. The study presented in this article explored the perceptions and experiences of thirty-three women living in the United Kingdom who were developing their skills in social entrepreneurship. Documenting their experiences, we sought to understand how women work in a male-dominated field. Our analysis primarily builds on a Bourdieusian-revisionist approach of emotional capital to advance understandings of how women's networks with other women allow them to navigate social entrepreneurship. Drawing on emotional capital, as a theory, we examine the ways in which these women find these spaces generative and how it contributes to their problematising of masculine orthodoxies

Cultural capital · Entrepreneurship · Feminism · Field (mathematics) · Generative grammar · Human sexuality · Political science · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Women entrepreneurs · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology

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