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Abject Appearance

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Sharon MavinORCiD

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Abstract

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.

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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

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