Organizational identity and Space of Action
回应后结构主义将个体简化为主体位置的批评，通过研究公立大学女性服务人员如何反思和挑战父权、官僚和资本主义对其身份的定义，揭示矛盾与对抗如何为行动和自我理解开辟新可能。
Post-Structuralism has been criticized for reducing individuals to subject positions. This essay responds to this criticism by illustrating how individuals positioned as subjects reflect upon and challenge their socially ascribed identities. More specifically, it examines how a group of women 'service workers' employed by a public university respond to patriarchical, bureaucratic and capitalist articulations of their identity. The essay argues that the women's experiences of the contradictions and antagonisms that rupture these discourses generate a sense of 'lack' that has the effect of opening up alternative possibilities for action and self-understanding. However, these alternatives are not autonomously generated but are always/already specific to the individual's existential situation.