Interpreting the Maternal Organization (Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development, 4)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Maternal organisation: deprivation and denial......Page 26
Who's afraid of mothers?......Page 38
The uniting mother and the body of the organisation......Page 52
Organisation as body-in-contact......Page 72
Metaphors of the mother......Page 88
The motherhood of the road: from Paradise Lost to Paradise......Page 104
Maiden, Mother, Mistress, Monster: controlled and uncontrolled female power and the curse of the body in the early Victorian novel implications of historical stereotyping for women managers......Page 129
The mother and the masquerade: Elizabeth whole or unholy woman?......Page 146
Images of Madonna and fugue: a microscopic interlude......Page 162
Postmodernisms of pregnancy......Page 180
Foetus on screen......Page 202
Triptychs of curating: conversations with mothers of the in-between......Page 220
Beyond the fetishism of the mother: a remark on the event as folded effects......Page 242
Space and silence......Page 249
Index......Page 261