Unpacking Priscilla: Subjectivity and Identity in the Organization of Gendered Appearance
论文探讨性别差异话语如何塑造我们对自身性别的认知,并分析男扮女装和女性权力着装这两种性别不当着装如何挑战性别界限的刚性,最后对组织分析中的“女性化/再情色化”论点提出批评。
This paper argues that our understandings of ourselves as gendered, as either masculine or feminine, are a power effect of the contemporary discourse of gender difference. The main premise of the paper is that this social construction of gender allows for gender difference to be resisted-and the form of resistance analyzed here is gender-inappropriate dress. Two forms of gender-inappropriate dress-male transvestism and female power dressing-are discussed in the paper and argued to present a particular kind of challenge to our discursively constituted sense of the rigidity and mutual exclusivity of the gender divide. This analysis is used in the conclusion to offer some critical comments regarding the strand of organizational analysis which argues for a "feminization/reeroticization" of the workplace.