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The French feminist contribution: Humanizing organizations through esthetically informed, philosophical modes of representation

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  • Ngaire Bissett
  • Jill Birch

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This collaborative paper explores ways in which a “haptic” mode of representation can challenge restrictive academic logocentric forms of representation, by imagining an “affective wisdom” related, mode of embodied writing. The first author draws on three French feminist scholars to depict this as an affinities based, ethical framework, which reflects the depth of expression that marks our organizational lives. The second author illustrates this philosophically grounded representational esthetic, by advancing a series of craftwork culturalist interpretations, which enhance our appreciation of leadership practice as a relationally embedded phenomenon.

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  • Ngaire Bissett & Jill Birch, 2021. "The French feminist contribution: Humanizing organizations through esthetically informed, philosophical modes of representation," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(4), pages 1282-1303, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:28:y:2021:i:4:p:1282-1303
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12678
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    1. Robert Cooper & Stephen Fox, 1990. "The ‘Texture’ Of Organizing," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(6), pages 575-582, November.
    2. Deborah Kerfoot & David Knights & Ida Sabelis & Ann Rippin, 2015. "Feminine Writing: Text as Dolls, Drag and Ventriloquism," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(2), pages 112-128, March.
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