Feminist Reading Questions

(1) Discuss how Trethewey's research proposes that organizational context, society, and culture discipline women in terms of bodily display.

(2) What is expected of women, according to her research?

(3) Briefly discuss the theory of concertive control and its three related concepts. 

(4) Apply this theory to a real-life organization. How do you see concertive control present in this organization?

 

(5) Identify and describe two forms of feminism listed in the textbook (pages 112-114).

(6) Which perspective you would select to enact organizational change? Discuss how you would change an organization based on the assumptions of this perspective.