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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Foucault, Politics and Organizations: (Re)‐Constructing Sexual Harassment
Contributor:
Brewis, Joanna
imprint:
Wiley, 2001
Published in:Gender, Work & Organization
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/1468-0432.00121
ISSN:
0968-6673;
1468-0432
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>This article reviews the body of knowledge around workplace sexual harassment. In deploying a Foucauldian analysis, it attempts to argue that this knowledge, as part of the wider discourse on sex, may (re)produce consequences counter to those which its proponents espouse. In particular, the discussion seeks to problematize the status of harassment knowledge as truth; the depiction within this knowledge of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ sex; the roles this knowledge identifies for men and women within the phenomenon of harassment; and the theme within harassment knowledge that sex is central to our existence. The conclusion aims to suggest the ways in which this kind of analysis is useful by addressing the criticisms usually levelled at Foucault's work.</jats:p>