Description
This webinar is a conversation with Professor Yvonne Benschop and Professor Patricia Lewis about their thought provoking article "Not just one woman at a time: Re-radicalizing a feminist project at work in a postfeminist era".
On the back of their reflexive critique of the ways in which patriarchy has led to the cooptation of the feminist project and its negative impact on equality, the authors call us to re-radicalise as feminist subjects. In doing so, they ask us to rethink the possibilities of feminist subjectivities and to reclaim their luminosity as a collective, solidaristic effort.
Provider Information
Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to A1, A2, A3, C1, C2, C3, as detailed in the BAM Framework
Guest Speakers
Professor Yvonne Benschop
Professor Yvonne Benschop is the Vice Dean of Research and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Institute for Management Research at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
She is the director of the interdisciplinary research group Gender and Power in Politics and Management. She has received multiple grants from Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, FP7, ESF-EQUAL, NWO-STW, several Ministries in the Netherlands and Flanders, and private organizations for her work on the responsibility of organizations for gender equality, diversity and inclusion that is inspired by feminist organization theories and critical management studies.
She has published widely on formal and informal organization processes that produce organizational inequalities, and on interventions to sustain organizational change to intersectional equality. Recent research interests are at the crossroads of postfeminism, technofeminism and environmental feminism. Publications in English have appeared in journals such as Organization, Organzization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Theory, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Gender, Work and Organization, and Human Relations.
She has served as co-editor in chief of Organization and sits on multiple editorial boards. She is the Chair of the Dutch Network of Female Professors, and received a royal distinction for her research performance (email: [email protected]
Professor Patricia Lewis
Professor Patricia Lewis is a Professor of Management at Kent Business School, University of Kent.
She was previously the Director of the People, Management and Organisation Group and has also taken on other leadership roles within the School including Director of Learning & Teaching (2012-2015), Director of Student Experience (2012-2013) and Programme Director for the BBA, BBA (Marketing) and International Business degrees (2007-2011).
She has just completed a 3 year term as Joint-Editor-in-Chief of Gender, Work & Organization (2018-2020) and was an Associate Editor on the journal between 2011 and 2017. She has also served on the editorial boards of several journals including Organization (2019 to date), Gender in Management: An International Journal (2010 to date), International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2002 to 2006) and International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion (2003 to 2007).
She was Institute of Directors (Kent) Ambassador for Education & Skills from December 2020 to December 2021. Patricia has received funding from the British Academy, ESRC and Leverhulme and has received a number of awards for her work
Chairs
Dr Jenny Rodriguez
Jenny Rodriguez is Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies and member of the Work & Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester.
Her research focuses on intersectional inequality in work and organisations, and the interplay between identity, work and regulation, and has explored the transnational experiences of skilled migrant women. She is the Chair of the Gender in Management Special Interest Group at BAM.
She is also involved in scholar activism as founding member of the Decolonizing Alliance, an international community committed to intellectual and practical collaboration, translation, active solidarity and resistance to tackle intersectional inequalities and neo-colonial power relations faced by people of colour in the Global South and the Global North. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/jenny.rodriguez.html
Dr Elisabeth Anna Guenther
Elisabeth Anna Guenther is a postdoctoral university assistant at the University of Vienna’s Computational Empowerment Lab.
Her work on intersectional interference in the social practice of teaching STEM received several awards. She combines her profound knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methodologies with social theories to unveil implicit inequality practices.
Her current research focusses on intersectional reflexivity in and through digital empowerment. https://www.elisabeth-anna-guenther.eu/
Benefits of attending
- Gain understanding of what shapes narratives of emancipation and equality in the context of neoliberalism;
- Support insightful thinking about the relationship between patriarchy, post-feminism and the feminist project;
- Develop collective knowledge and utilise insights to develop sustainable agendas for EDIR;
- Engage in conversation that builds bridges between diverse knowledge projects.
Event Fee
BAM Members: Free
Non-BAM Members: £60
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Booking Deadline
Registrations close on 15th April 2025 at 23:59 BST
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
