This article explores the ways in which women perceive, experience, and cope with the initiation rites of the corporate tribe (gaining entry, establishing credibility, and managing gender identity). The analysis is based on intensive interviews with managerial women (46 professionals and 21 self-made women) employed in a variety of industries in France and Canada. The rites these women experience transcend cultural boundaries and national frontiers. They are encountered by both professionals and self-made women, although some differences between the two groups are found. The analysis describes the process of incorporating women into management and brings to light problems for women and dilemmas for organizations. Individual coping strategies and suggestions for organizational change are discussed.
Th is paper addresses the coconstruction of identities and emotions through the human/animal relationship, arguing that nonhuman animals can and do act as coagents in interspecies encounters. Th e paper narrates the extraordinary boundary-transgressing experiences of a particular kind of co(a)gency labeled "huminality" (the ongoing aff ective relationship of human and animal). An autoethnographic account of pet-visitation involving a woman, a West Highland white terrier named Fergus, and geriatric residents demonstrates the power of huminality to authorize the emergence and realization of diff erent identities and selves. Examples include the intimate friend, the dignifi ed self, the institutional resister, the gift-giver, and the available self. Huminality, in the emotional spacetime of the hospital, is rooted in empathy, concern, and aff ection. As ontological choreography, huminality takes us past the animal-Nature/human-culture frontier into uncharted territories of spacetime to engage in forms of life with nonhuman others. Encounters with animals, even on a geriatric ward, can transform our universe and our selves.Animals are mute only if we remain deaf.
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