Books by Silvia Gherardi

This study of the relations between gender, power and culture in organizations introduces two metaphors: the sexual contract, focusing on the sexuality of organizations and "static" gender difference; and the alchemic wedding, highlighting a plurality of cultural models of femaleness.

With a play on words sometimes used by feminists in the past, it could have been entitled His/story and Her/story, in order to convey from the outset a banal, but sometimes overlooked, fact: the contents of stories depend on the voice telling them, and the experience recounted in first person differs according to the gender of the narrator.Advances in Organization Studies, Vol. 23Series editors: Stewart R. Clegg & Ralph E. StableinAdvances in Organization Studies is a channel for cutting edge theoretical and empirical works of high quality, that contributes to the field of organizational studies. The series welcomes thought-provoking ideas, new perspectives and neglected topics from researchers within a wide range of disciplines and geographical locations.