TIME: February 26-28, 2013

DEAD LINE FOR APPLICATIONS: January 15, 2013
Applications should be sent to InterGender Managing Director Dr Björn Pernrud (Email: Bjorn.Pernrud@liu.se)

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 20

ORGANIZED BY
Unit of Gender Studies, Tema Genus, Linköping University, Sweden, in collaboration with InterGender (Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies), Linköping University, Sweden.

COURSE COORDINATORS:
Professor Jeff Hearn, Unit of Gender Studies, Tema Genus, Linköping University, Sweden, Senior Lecturer Pia Laskar, and Dr Björn Pernrud, Managing Directors of InterGender and Professor Nina Lykke, Director of InterGender, Linköping University.

MORE INFORMATION ON THE COURSE Let's get organised! Gender, Organisations, Policy and Power.

TEACHER:
Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities), Linköping University, Sweden, and Professor of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Mieke Verloo, Professor of Comparative Politics and Inequality Issues, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and Permanent Non-residential Fellow IWM, Institute for Human Sciences Vienna
Anna Wahl, Professor of Gender, Organisation and Management, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), and Guest Professor in Gender Studies (Gender, Organisation and Economic Change), Linköping University, Sweden.

Course description:
This course addresses contemporary issues in gender relations and gender power in and around organisations and policy processes. It reviews developments in feminist and critical gender, postcolonial and intersectional scholarship on organisations, policy and policy-making. The lectures will include theoretical overviews as well as focused examples and case studies. This includes the puzzles and dilemmas of studies of policy frame analysis; the dynamics of advocacy and opposition related to gender equality policies and movements in a European context; the gendered and intersectional nature of policy; gender and sexuality in organisations and policy; men and masculinities in organisations; feminist organising; and organisational change in relation to gender equality work, and resistance to such work. Case studies drawn from state, business and NGO sectors include those on variations in notions of inequality/equality in different parts of the same organisation or institution, and gendered and intersectional dynamics in policy-making.
This course is directed both to doctoral students focusing on organisations and/or policy, and those researching other areas where organisational and policy issues may be relevant.

Readings

Jeff Hearn
Acker, Joan (2006) ‘Inequality regimes: gender, class, and race in organizations’, Gender and Society, 20(4): 441-464. (http://www.pineforge.com/oswcondensed/study/articles/05/Acker.pdf)

Calás, Marta B. and Smircich, Linda (2006) ‘From the ‘woman’s point of view’ ten
years later: towards a feminist organization studies’, in S. Clegg, C. Hardy, W. Nord
and T. Lawrence (Eds.) Handbook of Organization Studies (2nd. edition), London:
Sage, pp. 284-346.

Collinson, David L. and Jeff Hearn (1994) ‘Naming men as men: implications for work, organizations and management’, Gender, Work and Organization, 1(1): 2-22.

Collinson, David L. and Jeff Hearn (2005) ‘Men and masculinities in work, organizations and management’, in Michael Kimmel, Jeff Hearn and R.W. Connell (eds.) Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities, Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage, pp. 289-310.

Czarniawska, Barbara (2011) ‘How to study gender inequality in organizations?’, in Emma Jeanes, David Knights and Patricia Yancey Martin (eds.) Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization, John Wiley, Chichester, pp. 81-108.

Hearn, Jeff (1996) ‘Deconstructing the dominant: making the one(s) the other(s)’, Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, 3(4): 611-626.

Hearn, Jeff (2000) ‘On the complexity of feminist intervention in organizations’, Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, Special Issue on ‘Beyond armchair feminism’, 7(4): 609-624.

Hearn, Jeff (2006) ‘The implications of information and communication technologies for sexualities and sexualized violences: contradictions of sexual citizenships’, Political Geography, 25(8): 944-963.

Hearn, Jeff (2009) ‘Patriarchies, transpatriarchies and intersectionalities’, in E. Oleksy (ed.) Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Sexualities, Politics, Routledge, London, pp. 177-192.

Hearn, Jeff (2011) ‘Sexualities, work, organizations and managements: Empirical, policy and theoretical challenges’, in Emma Jeanes, David Knights and Patricia Yancey Martin (eds.) Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization, John Wiley, Chichester, pp. 299-314.

Hearn, Jeff, Jyrkinen, Marjut, Piekkari, Rebecca and Oinonen, Eeva (2008) ‘”Women home and away”: Transnational managerial work and gender relations’, The Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 83(1), pp. 41-54. (For more detail on this study, see: Hearn, Jeff, Piekkari, Rebecca and Jyrkinen, Marjut (2009) Managers Talk about Gender: What Managers in Large Transnational Corporations Say about Gender Policies, Structures and Practices, Edita,
Helsinki, especially pp. 10-69.) Available at:
https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10227/476/978-952-232-068-1.p...

Hearn, Jeff, Metcalfe, Beverley Dawn and Piekkari, Rebecca (2012) ‘Gender, intersectionality and international human resource management’, in Gunther Ståhl, Ingmar Björkman and Shad Morris (eds.) Handbook of Research on International Human Resource Management, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 509-531.

Hearn, Jeff and P. Wendy Parkin (1983) ‘Gender and organizations: a selective review and a critique of a neglected area’, Organization Studies, 4(3): 219-242.

Hearn, Jeff and Wendy Parkin (2003) ‘The gendered organisation: a positive critique’, Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão (The Digest on Organisational Behaviour), 9(2): 125-146.

Holvino, Evangelina (2008) ‘Intersections: The simultaneity of race, gender and class
in organization studies’, Gender, Work and Organization, 17(3): 248-277.

Schuberth, and Young, Brigitte (2011) ‘The role of gender in the financial sector’, in Brigitte Young, Isabella Bakker and Diane Elson (eds.) Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective, Routledge, London, pp. 132-154.

Townsley, Nikki C. (2003) ‘Review Article: Looking back, looking forward. mapping the gendered theories, voices, and politics of organization’, Organization, 10(3): 617-639.

Walkowitz, Carol (2011) ‘The organizational contours of ‘body work’, in Emma Jeanes, David Knights and Patricia Yancey Martin (eds.) Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization, John Wiley, Chichester, pp. 177-190.

Mieke Verloo
Benschop, Yvonne and Mieke Verloo (2011) ‘Policy, practice and performance: gender and organizational change’. In: Emma L. Jeanes, David Knights and Patricia Yancey Martin (eds.) Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley; Chichester, pp. 277-291.

Ciccia, Rossella and Mieke Verloo (2013). ‘Parental Leave Regulations and the Persistence of the Male Breadwinner Model: Using Fuzzy Set Ideal Type Analysis to Assess Gender Equality in an Enlarged Europe’, Journal of European Social Policy.

Verloo, Mieke (2013) ‘Intersectional and cross-movement politics and policies: reflections on current practices and debates’. For Signs Special issue on intersectionality, editors Kimberley Crenshaw, Leslie McCall and Sumi Cho (summer)

Verloo, Mieke (2011) Gender equality policies as interventions in a changing world, Keynote Adress at the 2nd ECPG Conference, January 2011, Budapest. Available at http://www.ecprnet.eu/sg/ecpg/documents/keyNotes/Gender_equality_policie...

Verloo, Mieke and Emanuela Lombardo (2007) ‘Contested Gender Equality and Policy Variety in Europe: Introducing a Critical Frame Analysis Approach’. In: Verloo, Mieke (ed.) Multiple meanings of gender equality. A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe. CEU Press: Budapest. Pp 21- 51.

Walby, Sylvia (2011) The Future of Feminism, Polity, Bristol.

Anna Wahl
Holgersson, Charlotte (2012) Recruiting managing directors: Doing homosociality. Gender, Work and Organization DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2012.00595.x

Tienari, Janne, Charlotte Holgersson, Anne-Marie Söderberg and Eero Vaara (2005) Gender
and national identity constructions in the cross-border merger context. Gender, Work and
Organization, Vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 217-247.

Tienari, Janne, Charlotte Holgersson, Susan Meriläinen and Pia Höök (2009) Gender, management and market discourse: The case of gender quotas in the Swedish and Finnish Media. Gender, Work and Organization, Vol 16, no. 4, pp. 501–521.

Wahl, Anna (2001) From lack to surplus. In Sjöstrand, Sandberg och Tyrstrup (eds.), Invisible
Management. London: Thomson.

Wahl, Anna (1998) Deconstructing women and leadership. International Review of Women and Leadership, Vol 4, No. 2, Dec.

Wahl, Anna (2010) The impact of gender equality on management and leadership: reflections on change and resistance. In Husu, Liisa, Jeff Hearn, Anna-Maija Lämsä and Sinikka Vanhala (eds.) Leadership through the Gender Lens. Helsinki: Hanken research reports.

Wahl, Anna (2011) Men and women of the corporation by Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In Jensen, T. and T. L. Wilson (eds.) On The Shoulders of Giants. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Wahl, Anna (2012) Re-considering complicit masculinity, in Hearn, J. and A. Biricik (eds) Gendered sexualed transnationalisations, deconstructing the dominant: Transforming men, ’centres’ and knowledge/policy/practice. Linköping: GEXcel Work in Progress report Volume XVI.

Wahl, A. and Charlotte Holgersson (2003) Male managers’ reactions to gender diversity activities in organizations. Davidson, Marilyn and Sandra Fielden (eds.) Individual diversity and psychology in organizations. Chichester: Wiley.

Wahl, Anna and Pia Höök (2007) Changes in working with gender equality in management in
Sweden. Equal Opportunities International, 26, 5.

Wahl, Anna, Charlotte. Holgersson and Pia Höök (2005) Irony as a Feminist Strategy for Women Managers. Johansson, Ulla and Jill Woodilla (eds.) Irony and Organizations: Epistemological claims and supporting field stories. Copenhagen: Abstrak Forlag-Liber-Copenhagen Business School Press.

Structure of the course:
The course consists of three days of lectures and seminars. Students are asked to have completed course readings before sessions in Linköping.

The course will include two kinds of sessions: 1) lecture-discussion-sessions on the proposed readings. Course participants are expected to have read the relevant chapters/articles before the course.
2) group sessions with presentations of students' papers, where students are given the opportunity to present their doctoral research and receive comments from teachers and co-participants.
Participants will be divided into three working groups to make individual presentations and discuss research questions from their doctoral project.
Each of the three lecturers will have responsibility for one group each. Based on the research description, each participant is asked to make a presentation of her/his research project for 10-15 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for questions and discussion. All group participants are expected to read the papers of their fellow group members and be ready to give comments.

Preparation:
* See reading list. 

* Paper (2-5 pages describing research problems related to the PhD project of the participant) to be sent to InterGender Managing Director Dr Björn Pernrud (Email: Bjorn.Pernrud@liu.se) AT THE LATEST TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE COURSE START; remember to mark it with your name and the course name.
* All participants are expected to read the papers of their fellow group members before the course and be ready to give comments in the group sessions.
* The students’ papers and some of the other readings for the course will be available to all the participants via our intra net.
 Books must be bought or borrow. More info on this will be given to registered participants.

Essay
:
* 15 pages to be handed in at the latest 3 months after the course; one copy should be sent to the teacher, who is going to evaluate it, and one to InterGender Managing Director Dr Björn Pernrud (Email: Bjorn.Pernrud@liu.se). The teacher has 3 months to evaluate the essay.

* The essay should strike a balance between addressing a theme, which have been part of course (lectures, discussions, reading material), and be relevant for the PhD research of the student.

* The essay should, moreover, be considered as an exercise in doing a written presentation to an academic readership, which is not familiar with the author's PhD research. It should constitute a whole and explain relevant contexts.

ACCREDITATION AND EXAMINATION
a) 7,5 ECTS Credits is given for active participation and a short paper, maximum 5 pages.
b) 15 ECTS Credits is given for active participation, + essay (evaluated as pass/fail). An essay should be of 10-15 pages. The selected topic shall be related to the course content and readings. The essay is to be sent to the teacher as well as to the academic coordinator no later than 3 months after the final day of the course.

Info on admission and grants can be found here.

Applications should be sent to InterGender Managing Director Dr Björn Pernrud (Email: Bjorn.Pernrud@liu.se) no later than January 15th, 2013

InterGender: Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
The School is funded by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). It is organized as a joint venture between Gender Studies Units and doctoral programmes at Linköping University (host university) and at eight other Swedish Universities: Blekinge Institute of Technology, Göteborg University, Lund University, Luleå Technical University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Umeå University, Örebro University and at three international partner institutions: Graduate Gender Program at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), The Finnish National Doctoral School of Women's and Gender Studies (Helsinki University, Finland) and Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany).