The Sublime Object of Desire (for Knowledge): Sexuality at Work in Business and Management Schools in England
探讨性如何与性别在学术机构中交织，基于精神分析后结构主义女性主义理论，分析女性在知识创造中的边缘化，并通过对英国商学院女学者的实证研究揭示性别化的性如何被制度化。
This paper explores why and how sexuality intertwines with gender in the organizational context of academic institutions. Drawing on insights from the work of psychoanalyst post-structuralist feminists Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva, we explore the institutionalized abjection of the real and imagined (woman's) body as the root cause of her relative exclusion from knowledge (creation) and her subordinate position in it. The project is analytical as well as political: it both unravels and opposes the ways gender is superimposed on sexuality and how we as academics might collude, legitimize and perpetuate and gendered sexualized (and therefore exclusionary) ways of organizing in/of society. The findings of an empirical study of a sample of women academics in management and business schools in England are discussed in the light of the proposed theory.