Fitting the bill? (Dis)embodied disclosure of sexual identities in the workplace

Einarsdottir, Anna; Hoel, Helge; Lewis, Duncan

doi:10.1177/0950017014568136

Cited by 43 publications

(43 citation statements)

References 59 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Whereas these negative behaviours fit the generalised model of bullying and harassment, in the case of disabling impairments, they were deployed openly because of the impairment with the behaviours used directly in association. These correlations between negative behaviours and the protected characteristic status of the targeted person has also been reported in sexuality (Hoel, Lewis & Einarsdóttir, 2014;Einarsdóttir, Hoel, & Lewis, 2015) and ethnicity (Lewis & Gunn, 2007).…”

Section: Disability and Bullying: The Evidence Thus Farsupporting

confidence: 65%

Workplace Bullying, Disability and Chronic Ill Health

Lewis

Deakin

McGregor

2021

Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Disability and Bullying: The Evidence Thus Farsupporting

confidence: 65%

Workplace Bullying, Disability and Chronic Ill Health

Lewis

Deakin

McGregor

2021

Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Many studies examine and legitimize LGBT organizational experiences and identities (e.g. Einarsdóttir et al, 2015; Muhr et al, 2016; Rumens, 2008; Rumens and Kerfoot, 2009), whereas others emphasize the quest to keep queer critical and unsettled (Butler, 1993a). Projects in the latter vein often reference queer ing , in the gerund form, to evoke this ongoing process.…”

Section: From Binary Gender Performativity To Queer Performativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Coding military command as a promiscuous practice? Unsettling the gender binaries of leadership metaphors

Ashcraft

Muhr

2017

Human Relations

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite abundant scholarship addressed to gender equity in leadership, much leadership literature remains invested in gender binaries. Metaphors of leadership are especially dependent on gender oppositions, and this article treats the scholarly practice of coding leadership through gendered metaphor as a consequential practice of leadership unto itself. Drawing on queer theory, the article develops a mode of analysis, called ‘promiscuous coding’, conducive to disrupting the gender divisions that currently anchor most leadership metaphors. Promiscuous coding can assist leadership scholars by translating the vague promise of queering leadership into a tangible method distinguished by specific habits. The article formulates this analytical practice out of empirical provocations encountered by the authors: namely, a striking mismatch between their experiences in military fields and the dominant metaphor of leading as military command. Ultimately, the article seeks to move scholarly practices of leadership toward queer performativity, in the hopes of loosening other leadership practices from a binary grip and pointing toward new relational possibilities.

show abstract

“…In other words, they have less explicitly focused on the way power is not only involved in normalizing a particular type of sexuality, but also in ensuring that sexuality is ‘constrained to lead a discursive existence’ (Foucault, 1998: 33) in the first place (Foucault, 1980, 1998). Exploring the role of power in the production of sexuality from a Foucauldian perspective allows us to not only go beyond the repressive understanding of power and the rational understanding of agency found in the traditional literature on sexual identity management, but also, as Foucault understands power to operate through relations (Foucault, 1980, 1998), to draw specific attention to the underexplored role of co-workers in the production of sexual minorities’ sexuality (Einarsdóttir et al, 2016).…”

Section: A Foucauldian Approach To the Role Of Power In Producing Sexmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of co-workers in the production of (homo)sexuality at work: A Foucauldian approach to the sexual identity processes of gay and lesbian employees

Laer

2017

Human Relations

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Adopting a Foucauldian perspective that focuses on the way power contributes to ensuring that sexuality leads a discursive existence, this study investigates the role of co-workers in the production of gay and lesbian employees’ sexuality. Drawing on interviews with 31 employees who self-identify as gay or lesbian, this article makes three contributions to the literature on sexual minorities’ identities at work. First, it shows how the production of sexuality is shaped by relations of attribution, evocation and circulation, which involve sexualizing practices through which co-workers directly contribute to ensuring that employees become sexually intelligible. By shaping the way sexual identities can be managed, these practices can turn the production of sexuality into a process that is not only unmanageable, but also even unmanaged by gay and lesbian employees themselves. Second, this article shows how an important element in sexual identity management is negotiating relations of truthfulness and inclusion, and constructing the occupied sexual subject position as positive or necessary. Third, it shows the connections between these different relations, which can occur and work together to ensure that all individuals come to be linked to a clear sexual identity.

show abstract

Fitting the bill? (Dis)embodied disclosure of sexual identities in the workplace

Cited by 43 publications

References 59 publications

Workplace Bullying, Disability and Chronic Ill Health

Workplace Bullying, Disability and Chronic Ill Health

Coding military command as a promiscuous practice? Unsettling the gender binaries of leadership metaphors

The role of co-workers in the production of (homo)sexuality at work: A Foucauldian approach to the sexual identity processes of gay and lesbian employees

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About