Respectable Business Femininity

Mavin, S; Grandy, G

doi:10.4337/9781803922065

Respectable Business Femininity

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Abstract

Respectable Business Femininity is a theory which explains how through their bodies and appearance senior women leaders navigate the dynamic nature of privilege afforded through positions of formal authority. It combines contemporary respectable femininity, leadership as masculine, privilege at work, and body work for women leaders. Respectable Business Femininity is a discursive and relational process whereby women leaders, as sometimes privilege, engage in a disciplining of bodies and appearance by self-and-others, to ascertain credibility as leaders and respect as women.