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Abject Appearance is a theory which explains women leaders’ fascination with and attention to their own and other women’s bodies and appearance through embodied identity work in an intra-gender context. Abject Appearance recognizes that the maternal body is out of place in organizations and explains how women leaders experience this as a complex and intense process through which simultaneous seduction-repulsion towards their own and other women’s bodies and appearance surfaces. It offers a lens through which to understand why and how women leaders evaluate and monitor their own and other women’s bodies and appearance.
Author(s): Mavin S, Grandy G
Editor(s): J. Helms Mills, A.J. Mills, K.S. Williams & R. Bendl
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Elgar Encyclopedia on Gender in Management
Year: 2025
Pages: 13-14
Print publication date: 30/01/2025
Online publication date: 21/01/2025
Acceptance date: 15/10/2024
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Place Published: Cheltenham
URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803922065.ch01
DOI: 10.4337/9781803922065
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781803922058
