Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations

`This exceptionally interesting study provides an up-to-date and integrated
perspective on organizations, violence, gender and sexuality. It pays
particular attention to the power wielded by hierarchies of heterosexual men,
and the ways in which this produces violence in different, carefully analyzed
forms. This book is a major contribution to the construction of sociological
and political knowledge that is not founded on the dominant definitions of
heterosexual masculinities' - Professor Terrell Carver, University of Bristol

`This is a wide-ranging and authoritative book. The authors draw attention to
the huge amount of evidence now available that documents the gendering and
sexualising processes at the core of organisational life. While they never nag
about violation and inequality, they are nonetheless relentless in confronting
the reader with the weight of evidence'- Professor Rosemary Pringle,
University of Southampton

This book brings together the themes of gender, sexuality, violence and
organizations. The authors synthesize the literature and research which has
been done in these fields and provide a coherent framework for understanding
the interrelationship between these concepts.

The importance of violence and abuse, and particularly men's violence to
women, children and other men has been well established, especially through
feminist and some pro-feminist research. The insights of this scholarship have
rarely been applied to organizational analysis. The authors draw on this
literature and their own research, as well as relevant literatures on safety
and risk at work; anxiety and stress at work; organizational policies on
violence; sexual harassment and bullying in organizations; and male sexuality,
to provide valuable information on violence in and around organizations.

Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations breaks new ground in
organization studies and will be essential reading for academics and students
in both organization studies and all those studying issues of gender and
sexuality in organizations.