1062129

Course
Feminist Theories in Oganization, Management and Legal Studies – Perspectives and Application (student-driven PhD course)

Faculty
Professor (mso) Sara Louise Muhr (IOA)

Assistant Professor Maj Grasten (MPP)

Course Coordinator
Jette Sandager (MPP), Rasmus Kamstrup Bogetoft (MPP/LAW), Sara Dahlman (MPP), and Bontu Lucie Guschke (IOA)

Prerequisites
The PhD students should attach to the application a document with a couple of lines about their PhD project and why they think the course will be relevant for them. The students will be told if they are accepted to the course 5 weeks before course start.

Each participant is required to submit an abstract of no more than five pages, presenting and positioning their PhD project within the fields of organization, management or legal studies. The abstracts should include participants’ reflections on how the course’s theories and concepts relate to and may inform their projects. To allow for feminist approaches of academic writing, participants are encouraged to write exploratory and open-ended abstracts. Participants are free to choose their own style and format of submission, which might include various forms of text(s), including e.g. poetry or fictional writing, pictures, drawings, short videos, etc. This will enable participants to investigate different modes of learning and new forms of developing and sharing knowledge. Abstracts must be in English. Deadline for submission is 26 October 2020. 

Only PhD students can participate in the course, and it is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that the PhD student attends the whole course.

Aim
The course explores a variety of feminist theoretical concepts and theories, specifically focusing on feminist theories’ importance for bringing insights to research in the fields of organization, management, and legal studies. The course offers a close reading of a selection of feminist writings. The writings will provide a foundation for participative discussions about/around gender, heteronormativity, sexuality, affect, boundaries and dichotomies (such as public-private), and intersectionality (incl. perspectives on race and class). 

Taking a starting point in our own research projects, the course encourages a playful and explorative approach to employing different feminist theories and concepts to (critical) organization, management, and legal studies. This allows us to examine new perspectives and understand our research subjects from new feminist angles, while enabling us to understand the importance of feminist theories, concepts and methods in varying research contexts and the possible synergies between varying fields of research.

Given the student-driven format of the course with a small number of participants, there is a strong focus on discussions of each of the students’ PhD projects and the usefulness of feminist theories, concepts and methods for their research. The course will include time to explore, investigate and discuss analytical options for each individual project.

Questions that will be explored during the course are:

• What is feminist theorizing and how can we use it in organization, management, and legal studies? 

• What new insights can feminist theory bring to organization, management, and legal studies and vice versa? 

• What are the synergies and similarities in the way feminist theories and methods have been used in organization, management and legal studies?

• How can we explore feminist methods and writing techniques in our PhD projects?

• What publishing strategies can be used when employing feminist theories and methods in organization, management and legal studies?

This course invites participants to be explorative and curious, we thus deliberately use the student driven format to be more flexible with the readings for the course. To ensure a common ground, the facilitators will choose two texts that are closely read and discussed during the first day. For the remaining texts, however, we invite participants to choose which readings on the list to read and prepare, individually. Participants should keep in mind that their choice of texts should correspond to 3 ECTS.

We encourage participants to choose a combination of texts they deem most relevant for their projects, and texts that they are curious to explore. Participants will be expected to discuss the texts with other participants who might not have read the texts, which requires close readings and careful preparations.

During the course, participants will be expected to present their projects and their research’s connection to the feminist theories and concepts discussed in the course.

Course content

Teaching style

Lecture plan
DAY 1 Introduction to feminist theorizing and concepts and their application in organization, management, and legal studies
09.00 - 09.30 Welcome and introductions
09.30 - 11.00 Presentation and discussion by prof. MSO Sara Louise on feminist theories and concepts and their applicability and importance for Organization, Management, and Legal Studies.
11.00 - 12.00 Writing session: Inspired by the facilitator’s presentation: How does the presentations relate to my project and how can it help me to further develop my project?
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 13.45 Walk & talk in pairs to discuss each other’s projects
13.45 - 15.30 Close reading of two selected texts and collective discussion of their relevance and use in organization, management and legal studies
15.30 - 16.00 Individual reflection on the day (in writing) and shared wrap up and reflections on the day
   
DAY 2 Investigation and exploration of feminist theories and concepts through collective discussions
09.00 - 09.30 Re-cap of yesterday (critiques, struggles, possibilities)
09.30 - 11.00 Presentation and discussion by Ass. Prof. Maj Grasten on feminist theories and concepts and their applicability and importance for Organization, Management, and Legal Studies.
11.00 - 12.00 Writing session: Inspired by the facilitator’s presentation: What thoughts come out of the presentation and how can they help me to advance my project?
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 13.45 Walk & talk in pairs to discuss each other’s projects
13.45 - 15.30 Collective discussion of 1-2 PhD projects using selected readings: Relevance & use of feminist theories and concepts in the projects
15.30 - 16.00 Individual reflection on the day (in writing) and shared wrap-up and reflections on the day
   
DAY 3 Collective analysis and application of feminist theories and concepts of the participants’ PhD projects
09.00 - 09.30 Re-cap of yesterday (critiques, struggles, possibilities)
09.30 - 11.00 Collective discussion of 1-2 PhD projects using selected readings: Relevance & use of feminist theories and concepts in the projects
11.00 - 12.00 Presentation and discussion of questions/ideas/struggles in individual PhD projects that came out of the last two days (incl. publication strategies)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 Facilitated exercises to share and discuss
14.00 - 15.00 Writing & data session: Continuing the work on own PhD projects – either writing or working on own data
15.00 - 16.00 Wrap-up, reflections, course evaluation 

Learning objectives

Exam

Other

Start date
09/11/2020

End date
11/11/2020

Level
PhD

ECTS
3

Language
English

Course Literature
PLANNED READINGS (the reading list is preliminary and might be updated closer to the date of the course)

On feminist studies in organization and management studies:
Harding, N., J. Ford and M. Fotaki (2012). ‘Is the f-word still dirty? A past, present and future of/for feminist and gender studies in organization’, Organization, 20(1): 51-65.

Fotaki, Marianna & Harding, Nancy (2019). Gender and the Organization: Women at Work in the 21stCentury.Abingdon: Routledge (especially: Chapters 1, 2, 5, and 7).

Pullen, Alison; Harding, Nancy; & Phillips, Mary (2017). Introduction: Feminist and Queer Politics in Critical Management Studies. In: Pullen, Alison; Harding, Nancy & Phillips, Mary (ed.). Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies (Dialogues in Critical Management Studies, Volume 3) Emerald Publishing Limited, 1-11.

Rumens, Nick (2017). Critical Management Studies, Queer Theory and the Prospect of a Queer Friendship. In: Pullen, Alison; Harding, Nancy & Phillips, Mary (ed.). Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies (Dialogues in Critical Management Studies, Volume 3), Emerald Publishing Limited, 227-247.

On feminist and queer theories:
Bourdieu, Pierre (2001). Masculine Domination. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Braidotti, Rosi (2002) “The use and abuses of the sex/gender distinction” in (ed. Griffin, G. and Braidotti, R.) Thinking Differently: a reader in European Women’s Studies. London: Zed Book.

Butler, Judith (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York, NY: Routledge.

Butler, Judith (1993). Bodies that matter. On the discursive limits of ‘sex’. New York & London: Routledge.

Butler, Judith (2004). Undoing gender. New York & London: Routledge.

Connell, Raewen and Messerschmidt, James, W.. (2005). Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the concept. Gender and Society, 19:6, pp. 829-859.

De Beauvoir, Simone (1949). “Introduction”. The Second Sex. New York: Vintage

Gatens, M. (1991). “A critique of the sex/gender distinction. In (ed. Gunew, S.) A Reader in Feminist Knowledge. London and New York: Routledge.

Haraway, D. (1991). “Gender for a Marxist Dictionary: the sexual politics of a word”. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: the reinvention of nature. London: Free Association Books.

Hearn, J. (2012). ‘Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men’s Bodies’ in (Turner, B.) Routledge Handbook of Body Studies. London and New York: Routledge.

Lugones, M. (2007). ‘Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System. Hypatia 22:1 (Winter), pp. 186-209.

On intersectionality:
Connell, R. (2011). Masculinity Research and Global Society. In (ed. Chow, L., Segal, M. T., and Tan, L.) Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities: Global, Transnational and Local contexts (Advances in Gender Research, Volume 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 51-72.

Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. In University of Chicago Legal Forum(Vol. 1989).

Davies, Angela (1981). Women, Race and Class. New York: Vintage Books.

Holvino, Evangelina (2010). Intersections: The Simultaneity of Race, Gender and Class in Organization Studies.Gender, Work and Organization 17(3), 248-277. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2008.00400.x

Liu, Helena (2018). Re-radicalising intersectionality in organisation studies. ephemera 18(1). http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/re-radicalising-intersectionality-organisation-studies.

McCall, Leslie (2005) ‘The Complexity of Intersectionality’, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society30(31): 1771–802. 

Nash, J. (2008) re-thinking intersectionality. Feminist Review, no 89, 1-15.

Staunaes, Dorthe (2003) ‘Where Have All the Subjects Gone? Bringing Together the Concepts of Subjectification and Intersectionality’, NORA: Nordic Journal of Women Studies 11(2): 101–10. 

Swan, Elaine (2017). Manifesto for Feminist Critical Race Killjoys in CMS. In: Pullen, Alison; Harding, Nancy & Phillips, Mary (ed.). Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies (Dialogues in Critical Management Studies, Volume 3) Emerald Publishing Limited,  13-37.

On feminist methods:
Basner, K.; Christensen, J.F.; French, J.E.; Schreven, S. (2018). Snaptivism : A Collective Biography of Feminist Snap as Affective Activism.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 18, No. 4, Feminism, Activism, Writing!, 2018, 22 p., p. 901-922.

Greenberg, D., J. Clair & J. Ladge (2019) “A Feminist Perspective on Conducting Personally Relevant Research: Working Mothers Studying Pregnancy and Motherhood at Work”, Academy of Management Perspective

Just, S.N.; Muhr, S.L.; Risberg, A. (2018). Feminism, Activism, Writing! : Introduction to the Special Section. In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 18, No. 4, Feminism, Activism, Writing!, 2018, 13 p., p. 841-853.

Phillips, Mary, Pullen, Alison & Rhodes, Carl (2014). Writing Organization as Gendered Practice: Interrupting the Libidinal Economy. Organization Studies 35(3), 313-333. DOI: 10.1177/0170840613483656

Rhodes, Carl (2018). Sense-ational organization theory! Practices of democratic scriptology. Management Learning, 50(1), 24–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618800716

Riach, K., N. Rumens and M. Tyler (2016) ‘Towards a Butlerian methodology: Undoing organizational performativity through anti-narrative research, Human Relations, 69(11): 2069-2089.

Schultz, C.S. (2017) ‘Working the ruins’ of collaborative feminist research, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 30:6, 505-518, DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1250175

Staunæs, D., & Raffnsøe, S. (2019). Affective Pedagogies, Equine-assisted Experiments and Posthuman Leadership. Body & Society, 25(1), 57–89. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X18817352

Weatherall, Ruth (2018). Writing the doctoral thesis differently. Management Learning, 50(1), 100-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618799867

On gender and law:
Bartlett, Katharine T. (1990). Feminist Legal Methods. Harvard Law Review 103 (4): 829-888.

Brown, Wendy (2000). Suffering Rights as Paradoxes, Constellations, 7:2, pp. 208-229.

Butler, Judith (2008). ‘Sexual Politics, Torture and Secular Time’, British Journal of Sociology, 59:1, pp 1-23.

Charlesworth, Hilary, Chinkin, Christine and Shelley Wright (1991). Feminist Approaches to International Law’. American Journal of International Law 85 (4): 613–45.

Cossman, Brenda (1997). Turning the Gaze Back on Itself: Comparative Law, Feminist Legal Studies, and the Postcolonial Project. Utah Law Review 2: 525-544.

Dalton, Clare (1987). Where We Stand: Observations on the Situation of Feminist Legal Thought, 3 Berkeley Women's L.J. 1 

Grewal, Inderpal (2005). ‘Women’s Rights as Human Rights: The Transnational Production of Global Feminist Subjects’ in Transnational America: Feminism, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Durham: Duke University Press.

Harris, Angela P. (1990). Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory. Stanford Law Review 42 (3): 581-616.

Kiss, Elizabeth (1997). ‘Alchemy or Fool’s Gold? Assessing Feminist Doubts over Rights’ in (eds. 

Shanley, M. L. and Narayan, U.) Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives. Cambridge: Penn State and Polity Press.

MacKinnon, C. A. (2006). ‘Rape, Genocide and Women’s Human Rights´ in Are Women Human?, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Otto, Dianne (2007). “Taking a Break” from “Normal”: Thinking Queer in the Context of International Law. Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 10: 119-122.

Otto, Dianne (2009). The Exile of Inclusion: Reflections on Gender Issues in International Law over the Last Decade. Melbourne Journal of International Law 10: 11-26.

Rhode, Deborah L. (1990). Feminist Critical Theories. Stanford Law Review 42 (3): 617-638.

Romany, Celina (1993) Women as Aliens: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law. Harvard Human Rights Journal 6: 87–126.

Smart, Carol (1989). Feminism and the Power of Law: New York: Routledge
 
Legal aspects:
Jacobi, Tonja and Schweers, Dylan, Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments (October 24, 2017). 103 Virginia Law Review 1379 (2017); Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-03.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2933016 See also https://hbr.org/2017/04/female-supreme-court-justices-are-interrupted-more-by-male-justices-and-advocates

European Network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination, A comparative analysis of non-discrimination law in Europe, 2017. Communication from the Commission of the European Parliament, The Council and the European Economic and Social Committee: EU Action Plan 2017-2019 Tackling the gender pay gap, COM(2017) 678 final, Tackling the gender pay gap - European Commission -
Europa EUec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=48360

Decision by the Danish Supreme Court on 24 September 2009, in the case between Teknisk Landsforbund som mandatar for A and A/S Ikast Betonvarefabrik, referenced in U 2009.2993 H.
(Re. gender differences in pay and burden of proof).

Case from the Danish Tillidsnævn 14.2006, “Fars lille suttetøs”.

Fee
DKK 3,900 (covers the course, coffee/tea and lunch)

Minimum number of participants
5

Maximum number of participants
10

Location
Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: SP114 (first floor)

Contact information
The PhD Support
Nina Iversen
Tel.: +45 38 15 24 75
E-mail: ni.research@cbs.dk

Registration deadline
04/10/2020

Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline.
The PhD students should attach to the application a document with a couple of lines about their PhD project and why they think the course will be relevant for them. The students will be told if they are accepted to the course 5 weeks before course start.
Top